Dev Update: Reporting, Blocked Users (announcements)

submitted ago by PuttItOut

Reporting

Voat pushed a new reporting structure yesterday to help with content management, especially spam. Before yesterday we did not have an adequate way for users to report content and what we did have simply sent messages to smail as Spam reports.

Now Voat has a way for users to report content that violates different rules. Currently we are only exposing system rules, i.e. Spam, Dox, and Illegal content. We will shortly extend this to subverse moderators so they can add rules as well.

You can send reports by clicking the report button on submissions or comments.

Subverse moderators (Owners, Moderators, and Janitors) now have access to grouped user reports by clicking the user reports link in the mod tool box. You can choose to ignore reports which mark them as “reviewed” if they are not actionable.

Credit where credit is due:

Thanks to @Cynabuns spending countless hours researching, organizing, and filtering spam reports, Voat is now currently operating more spam free than at any point in our past. Voat really owes a lot to @Cynabuns and the many users who have helped by reporting spam for their thankless work in this area, so when you don’t see spam, think of these unsung heroes.

Blocked Users

Blocked user functionality has now been extended into comment sections. If you block a user, their comments will be collapsed.

Please note that currently when you block a user, all notifications and PMs are dropped entirely. We will shortly be adding code to allow the notifications from blocked users to reach your inbox but be marked as “read” so as to not allow harassing.

Canary Notice:

https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806

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SaneGoatiSwear ago

and the slippery slope has gone off the cliff

you've shown your true colors here, putt.

i've gotten harassed more than any other user on voat.

and i am 100% against this blocked user move.

so it is: @puttitout's first move as CEO is to increase the shadowbox to include comments.

PuttItOut ago

I can't please everyone, but I desire to give users the capability to make their experience on Voat what they want it to be.

SaneGoatiSwear ago

dude

what a cop out

they have EVERY OTHER SOCIAL NETWORK ON THE INTERNET FOR THAT

why must you support the slippery slope?

i thought you were for free speech?

clearly you are not, by action.

you coded a larger shadowbox into voat and pushed it

without community discussion

you're a spez.

oftotc ago

Dude. No one wants to hang around the town-square where the village idiot is spewing verbiage that they find annoying for whatever reason. They need to be able to walk away from the guy. Now I ain't sayin' you're the village idiot, but we need to be able to voat in peace, dude. This makes it so people can walk away from you if they want to. It's not going to be withheld, regardless of your complaint.