As promised a few months back, I've been slowly but surely writing new code to the Discuss-O-Mat to add a new feature to help report any possible offensive posts. I've just uploaded the code and while I've tested it there still could be a bug or two so if you notice anything strange please email me ([email protected]) asap and report it.
I've deleted very few posts over the years. I plan to keep it that way, but sometimes I'm not around and if something is really bad (such as the idiot who posted that disgusting racist photo last summer) I want members to be able to help out. You will notice in the blue bar on the far right is a new link that says "Report this post to webmaster". The way it works is if you click that you will be brought to a confirmation screen (just to be sure it wasn't clicked by accident). Once you press the confirm button the system will register the post within the thread as being a possible offensive post. If 7 different members click on the link the system will automatically remove the text in the post and the system will email me and let me know. Once I get this email I will check out what was posted and if I decide it was offensive I will keep that text/link/picture of the post deleted. If I think that it wasn't really offensive I will restore the posting to its original state and remove the Report button so it wont happen again.
Now I'm not stupid and I realize that this functionality could be susceptible to abuse so I've taken great strides to prevent the same person from being able to click the report button on the same post more than one time. I check three things to make sure (as much as technically possible) that its not the same person over and over.
Questions/Comments?
I've deleted very few posts over the years. I plan to keep it that way, but sometimes I'm not around and if something is really bad (such as the idiot who posted that disgusting racist photo last summer) I want members to be able to help out. You will notice in the blue bar on the far right is a new link that says "Report this post to webmaster". The way it works is if you click that you will be brought to a confirmation screen (just to be sure it wasn't clicked by accident). Once you press the confirm button the system will register the post within the thread as being a possible offensive post. If 7 different members click on the link the system will automatically remove the text in the post and the system will email me and let me know. Once I get this email I will check out what was posted and if I decide it was offensive I will keep that text/link/picture of the post deleted. If I think that it wasn't really offensive I will restore the posting to its original state and remove the Report button so it wont happen again.
Now I'm not stupid and I realize that this functionality could be susceptible to abuse so I've taken great strides to prevent the same person from being able to click the report button on the same post more than one time. I check three things to make sure (as much as technically possible) that its not the same person over and over.
Questions/Comments?
