Flag dialog confusing
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So there's this lovely dialog when you flag a post. Looks like this.
https://i.imgur.com/FQf9nH6.png
Now, most of the flagged posts around here are signals for jeffing, so 'other' is going to be the most often clicked item. That activates the text box, and after you've typed in it, the Submit Report button is enabled, which submits the report.
Based on that information, you would guess that Spam and Offensive activate the Submit Report button, or perhaps one but not both activate the text box.
You would be wrong. Clicking Spam or Offensive instantly submits the report. That is so incredibly inconsistent UI design it baffles me. What is the point of having the Submit button visible before picking a reason if it's only usable in Other? I could say the same thing about the text box, but the presence of the button seriously implies you get to confirm before submitting the report. You don't.
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Also, there's no Libel button. What's up with that?
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@Jaloopa That would go under Offensive. But there is no 'off-topic' button, which Spam doesn't cover by most interpretations.
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@pie_flavor said in Flag dialog confusing:
there is no 'off-topic' button
Are you trying to over-exert our mods?
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An on topic button would be more useful for here
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flagged for being on topic
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@Jaloopa said in Flag dialog confusing:
An on topic button would be more useful for here
It's called upvote.
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@Gąska said in Flag dialog confusing:
@Jaloopa said in Flag dialog confusing:
An on topic button would be more useful for here
It's called upvote.
I can count on no hands the number of posts I've upvoted for being on topic
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@Jaloopa said in Flag dialog confusing:
An on topic button would be more useful for here
Every time a post is on topic, it gets flagged and Jeffed to another topic?
ideas is 
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@boomzilla it would be a fun* experiment to let all regular users do their own jeffing, in a self service way
``* dwarf fortress kind of fun
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@boomzilla Click 'view raw' on that post.
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@pie_flavor your lucky I didn't accidentally ban your IP by a misclick. Yes, it's happened before. Also:
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@boomzilla said in Flag dialog confusing:
your lucky
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@pie_flavor like I said:
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@boomzilla I assume there's a reason you keep whooshing at me.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Flag dialog confusing:
@boomzilla it would be a fun* experiment to let all regular users do their own jeffing, in a self service way
I think
had something like that? And it didn't end very well?
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@Gąska No, regulars couldn't jeff things around, just edit the title. It was fun. (There were TL4 users that could, but there was only 2 of them, and they didn't make anything funny with that)
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@pie_flavor said in Flag dialog confusing:
@boomzilla I assume there's a reason you keep whooshing at me.
But you can't figure it out. Hence:
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@sockpuppet7 said in Flag dialog confusing:
(There were TL4 users that could, but there was only 2 of them, and they didn't make anything funny with that)
When @aliceif and me were TL4 and we had fun with it.
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@pie_flavor said in Flag dialog confusing:
@boomzilla Click 'view raw' on that post.
That was established as inadmissible in the court of
a long time ago.
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@Gąska said in Flag dialog confusing:
I think had something like that?
It let you edit thread subjects, people used it to ruin my beautiful subjects.
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@Gąska said in Flag dialog confusing:
@sockpuppet7 said in Flag dialog confusing:
@boomzilla it would be a fun* experiment to let all regular users do their own jeffing, in a self service way
I think
had something like that? And it didn't end very well?Closing other people's polls was a feature...
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@sockpuppet7 said in Flag dialog confusing:
No, regulars couldn't jeff things around, just edit the title.
And it was abused so heavily that the site CSS had to be updated to specially mark the threads where it was most a problem. Because there was no rate-limit on
that wasn't a per-user limit…
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@dkf I'd argue that you people that try to hold serious discussion on this forum are the ones doing it wrong.
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@sockpuppet7 I think it was more just that people were annoyed when they couldn't easily find the status thread or avoid the Likes thread.
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@dkf said in Flag dialog confusing:
And it was abused so heavily that the site CSS had to be updated to specially mark the threads where it was most a problem.
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@boomzilla
I liked that ... it was like a free Kinder Surprise ... but without chocolate ... or toy
