Subverse Rules Feature (Beta 2) (voatdev)

submitted 7.1 years ago by PuttItOut

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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go1dfish 7.1 years ago

I strongly oppose this feature particularly for @system subs.

Freedom of speech should be the default.

If people want more heavily curated spaces they are welcome to create one.

I have no desire to vote to restrict what others are allowed to say and may well abstain from these votes on general principle.

Please reconsider the scope of this feature.

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PuttItOut 7.1 years ago

We won't be rolling out this feature without proper vetting. First we need to develop the feature and this feature is a big one, so we have a lot of testing yet to do.

Once we know it works and feel it's bugs are worked out we will decide how, where, and what to roll out.

I fully know that a feature such as this has to be used carefully.

What's that quote? With great ... comes great ... ?

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BaneGhostiSwear 7.1 years ago

you have to be severely retarded... oh wait, you're a bunch of militant criminal SJWs hellbent on censoring voat users!!

no one in their right mind running a social network claiming it's for free speech would ever do such a stupid thing - - of course, i remember when you banned 100s of user accounts for upvoting me, even accounts that had only upvoted once, but when your criminal SJW shill buddies downvote brigaded me 20,000 points, you did nothing but ban more upvoters, and eventually even after claiming you wouldn't ban my @sanegoatiswear account, you did it anyway, and in a dirty way - - you derpy guy'd me so @sanegoatiswear doesn't show up in the banned users log.