Lack of interest Post automatically goes to moderation queue when reported multiple times

[JamesBrown]

I have a couple of large forums ( >10,000 members) with no moderators, (I like it that way) we rarely get crap posted and when we do the members are great at reporting posts, but if I am not around the spam or offensive post remains until I can get online to delete it. I would like the spam to disappear if trusted members report it. Example;

When a certain number of members ( say 4 but you could select how many) with a certain amount of reputation/posts/timeserved etc; report a post, it goes straight into moderation. Now that would be great.

 

[Lojo]

I'm not talking about myself personally, I'm just suggesting possible ways this could be a downfall. Consider it healthy debating

Usergroup-based is alright, it allows an administrator to control which usergroups can control post display and it's much safer than letting average users have that control.

I completely agree with you, but I think it would be best to let the site administrator decide weather he wants this option to be user-group based ect, as we would not want to limit the administrator control.

It seems like in your case, you may want to set a specific user-group to use this option. Feel free to cast your vote if that is the case.

 

[Ruven]

Thats why you have this be optional.
If you have a mature forum where one group wont be trying to hide all the posts of another group they dislike... then you can use this tool.
Or if you have enough control over your memberbase that folks know better than to do something like that... you can use this tool.
Folks that dont have that benefit can opt not to use the tool.

I would love for posts/threads to not completely disappear but instead just elegantly hide the post from normal display.
Instead of the post you would get a small line of text saying "this post has been temporarily hidden by the community". Folks can then click on the line of text and have the post magically appear.
Ive seen this in some comment systems for blogs, it works really well.

 

[Chromaniac]

anyone who has heard about the digg bury brigade would not like this idea!

though optional support would not hurt anyone.

 

[dutchbb]

I think a thread/post should go to moderation queue after 3 or 4 reports: http://xenforo.com/community/thread...tion-queue-when-reported-multiple-times.4047/

That's a slightly different, but IMO better solution.

 

[Peter]

I think this would be a better way: after x number of report, it collapse/minimize the post (not hidden but still viewable with a click) and then x number after that, held in moderation queue.

 

[BirdOPrey5]

I made a suggestion for a spam fighting tool a lot like this that I can no longer find here... the gist was a "report as spam" flag taht would auto hide the post after x number of flags... but it would also have the ability for the admin to add "trusted flaggers" who if they flagged a post it would be immediately hidden regardless of the number of others who flagged it- these are people the admin could trust to only flag legit spam and not abuse the system.

 

[ProCom]

I have this running on 4 of my non-xf sites and it is a LIFESAVER! We have it set so that any 3 different members that report the same post, that item automatically becomes hidden for a moderator to review.

Sure there is potential for abuse, but like most features that's always a possibility. In our cases, the definite pros of having this feature outweigh the potential cons, especially when porn spammers get on the forum in the middle of the night and no moderators are on to remove the content.

In our communities we've only seen potential abuse once, and we moderated those few people and told them if we find they area abusing the feature they will bet banned. That took care of the problem really quick.

As an aside: When stuff like this is in this "lack of interest" section, do I bump it (like I did here) or start a new request?

 

[Jeremy]

Per the forum description, re request it.