Req #65203 [Asn]: Please add a feature to report potentially dangerous code examples in comments

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65203&edit=1 ID: 65203 Updated by: cmb@php.net Reported by: ryan at rmauger dot co dot uk Summary: Please add a feature to report potentially dangerous code examples in comments Status: Assigned Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Website problem Operating System: n/a PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: googleguy Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: > Given the difference in effort between simply clicking a button > to push a comment into a moderation queue, and to fill out a > report here, it is clear which would be a more successful > mechanism. I've quickly reviewed all new user contributed comments of the last weeks, and there are definitely much more jesters active than people who post really bad or even dangerous comments. I'm afraid that offering the possibility to push a comment into a moderation queue with a simple click would be misused too often, what would take even more time for review. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-10-11 11:45:28] googleguy@php.net We wanted user contributed notes to be self moderating; as in, the community voting down those notes which did not appeal to the broader audience would ultimately lead to the note being pushed down to the bottom of the page where fewer users were likely to spot it immediately. On the flip side, notes, which the community at large, found to be of higher relevance/quality would get pushed up to the top where most people would see them. I can't say that this has worked out perfectly thus far, but it has made a slight impact on weeding out the contributions of lesser quality/relevance. As always, good judgement and caution should be practiced when using any code found in the user contributed notes section of php.net as these notes are not generally moderated often enough. There isn't enough man power to moderate all of them and so we depend on people voting down the bad ones or reporting them here on bugs.php.net I'm not sure what impact the report as spam functionality will have on removing those notes. Once again, the problem is limited man power paying attention to user contributed notes. Ideally I would rather have everything become a lot more autonomous so that too many reports of spam or too many negative votes would ultimately remove the note and as such less moderation would be required. The user contributed notes on php.net should be moderated directly by its community, in my own humble opinion. However, this is a lot easier said than done due to the inability to limit the abuse of such a system. These issues have been raised in the past and not everyone agrees on how this should be implemented. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-10-11 00:57:24] bjori@php.net Sherif, you want to have a look at "Report as spam"/"Report as unsafe" for user contributed comments? Unsure if it is needed though, comments with negative votes should be removed... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-09 18:30:37] ryan at rmauger dot co dot uk Please mention that I am willing to collaborate if extra man-power is needed to help make it possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-09 18:27:24] danbrown@php.net No apologies necessary. I'm checking with one of the guys who has done substantial work on improving the notes system to see if he wants to take on the challenge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-09 18:22:48] ryan at rmauger dot co dot uk Apologies Dan, I misunderstood the significance of the status change to 'feedback' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65203 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65203&edit=1