Subverse rules are a feature Voat is implementing to remove subjectivism from moderator actions such as comment and submission deletions as well as user bans. Currently a moderator simply has to provide a “reason” why they are performing such actions, and seeing that often times this reason is made up on the spot, we are not happy with this. Going forward when a moderator performs such actions they will be required to select a rule violation. This requirement will help to establish the validity of the action.
Rules can be created at a subverse level by a moderator and Voat has some basic global rules, both of which are available as a selection on these moderator action screens as well as all report dialogs (comment/submission reports).
Rules will also be used in all domain and user bans going forward.
This feature is now in beta on the preview site and any testing would be greatly appreciated.
What needs testing:
- Subverse Rule creation
- Reporting comment and submissions in a subverse (making sure they show up in the v/sub/about/reports page)
- Moderator user banning and unbanning (all this code has been changed)
- Moderator comment and submission deletions
Test site: https://preview.voat.co/
P.S. The Vote feature is nearly fully implemented on the preview site, meaning you can create them, vote on them, and then manually process them for full lifecycle testing. :)
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totes_magotes ago
Which will do a fat lot of good if we still have to rely on an admin who is, as we are constantly told, to busy doing Dev work to actually admin. Don't think that the things you do aren't appreciated but it's the things you're not doing which is causing the current problems.
PuttItOut ago
Everything I am working on is to help resolve this.
You will soon see why we are working to have the community manage itself rather than rely on a centralized operator.
totes_magotes ago
I understand. I get it, I do. "But in the meantime" is a serious issue right now. Whenever there's an issue, we get told you're too busy. Which I get but, yeah, I'm (more than) a little sour about it because there are people who need supervision.
PuttItOut ago
I know! This place is full of kids.
adhdferret ago
Boss..... Can I make a suggestion?
Ok we get that overall you are right, and being that you are right and the CEO.....maybe insulting the userbase without being specific to a person that you see like this ain't the best idea?
We all know Reddit is in it's last bit of life. That shit will go supernova any moment now. When it does people are going to want something familiar to them. Voat is that. Currently many migrations we have had a fucking lot of people are shuned away because they don't get how this place works.
Well you know how we are, but that doesn't mean you have to be like that. Do you want this place to be bigger? I know I do because faulty as it is we still don't have to worry about you going and banning people like admin on Reddit does.
We don't have you editing posts and saying moment of bad judgement. These are fundamental that Reddit has forgotten as they feel they are too big to fail.
Well they are not and at some point people will get sick of the AstroTurf in their lawn and want some unkept grass full of dog shit and mushy fruit to hit with a lawnmower.
Don't let this place Jade your view of the world, and don't let mother fuckers like the sanegoatiswear persona taint you either.
PuttItOut ago
Well 'kids' was a goat reference not an insult.
adhdferret ago
Lol no one can ever call you stupid can they?
If anything you avoid questions better than admin at Reddit. Come on boss. I am behind you either way as I have always been, but quite a lot of this bullshit needs addressed.
Now you can keep sweeping it under the rug and ignoring it with the promise of this or that feature behind the next bend, eventually people will just give up. They will give up because if anything the older guard of voat knows how to pick and choose our battles. We also know when to find something more constructive to do with our time outside a slap fight.
Look if your goal is to make a zone of confinement to house all the rejects of Reddit so be it. That is what this place will be. Currently that is where it is headed. Good discussion is being twarted even with this post. Look at fucks like grifter. We both know that is sanegoatiswear.
You know why people rallied behind atko?
It was because people could associate a face with him. Same can't be said about you, and at times I don't blame you for not interacting with this place on a personal level.
But boss that is what this place needs. It doesn't need a person to just take out the trash and ignore questions. It needs a person to interact with community and address problems so they know they have something to stand behind.
Hope you see this and think about it.
BaneGhostiSwear ago
@puttitout actually knows, ferret. i am not grifter. you, however, are quantifiably functionally retarded.
adhdferret ago
Who sanegoatiswear persona has switched their name too I am certain isn't on @puttitout list of shit to ponder about.
Speaking of sanegoatiswear it sure feels good to say I was right about my prediction so long ago.....I sure don't see that name existing much around here anymore.
I bet that stings to know that all the grooming and time wasted with that whole ordeal was predicted by a retard as you refer to me.
BaneGhostiSwear ago
i am sanegoat. you were wrong, by the way.
i still stand for free speech. i'm just not allowed to speak freely on voat because SBBH took over, ousted @atko and censored the site - - plus they spent a year harassing the main user base causing most long-time users to leave.
you didn't predict anything. i stood up against tyranny to make sure the userbase was aware of the hostile criminal shill takeover, and was successful. most that remain here are redditards and retards and shills. most content on voat is shill-posted and upvote brigaded.
of course, you don't understand that. petty revenge and cupcakes are all that float around your deranged tranny mind.
adhdferret ago
All this talk, and still don't see the sanegoatiswear screen name.....seems like I am winning there boy!
Maybe sanegoatiswear did have the right intentions, but they sure didn't know how to accomplish the goal now did they? No it was all about me me me. Never the focus on anyone else.
That is unless there was an insult to throw. Funny thing is that we beat that persona. They did it all on their own.
freshmeat ago
it's actually sane.
adhdferret ago
It actually doesn't fucking matter, and it won't until they bring out the name and make a comment. Otherwise it is just someone wanting to claim something without proof.
freshmeat ago
Wasn't her original account banned? Pretty sure it was. If you care ask her to confirm it on her Gab.
I'm telling you that is sane, though. And sane is right, you are a water head (and cross dresser on youtube kek)
adhdferret ago
Her? If the person(s) behind sanegoatiswear account it make sense it's a female. Just can't let shit go can they?
I see you have adopted the nigger method of sexual insults as your remedial brain is incapable of anything more.
freshmeat ago
Where, exactly?
adhdferret ago
We are done here as I have a coffee to drink, and likely a shit to deposit in the septic tank....that is far more important than engaging you at this present moment.
freshmeat ago
that's what I thought boi