Suggestions to improve the site Thread poster: Zea_Mays
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Zea_Mays 
Italy
Local time: 18:25
Member (2009)
English to German
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- Add the possibility to flag posts, threads or users to moderators (increasing number of fake profiles posting bot generated spam content). Such a feature is actually a standard on platforms.
| | | | Lingua 5B
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 18:25
Member (2009)
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That would result in an uncontrollable series of the feature abuse. As some people might not like something subjectively and they would keep clicking on it. This would also result in more work for mods to check the legitimacy of reports.
Before introducing a feature, a platform culture is observed, then a decision is made for/against.
| | | | Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 18:25
Member (2009)
English to German
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Such a feature is a standard in any site. Mods check if the flag is justified and act accordingly.
Just put an intermediate step in between to explain the issue.
Now you have to report an entire thread and have to explain where the mod has to search for the flagged post for example.
People is not that dumb to report a post only because they didn't like, let's say, the grammar errors there.
| | | | Lingua 5B
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 18:25
Member (2009)
English to Croatian
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| Nobody said they were stupid? | Oct 10, 2023 |
They may just see things subjectively, whereas it objectively does not warrant removal. People get heated up really easily subjectively on forums.
What you described is a lot of additional steps/work for mods. The feature would increase the number of reported posts exponentially.
Nice that you informed me how it works currently, because I never reported a single post or a person since I joined ProZ, many years ago. Neither I will. Kudos to those who have the time for ... See more They may just see things subjectively, whereas it objectively does not warrant removal. People get heated up really easily subjectively on forums.
What you described is a lot of additional steps/work for mods. The feature would increase the number of reported posts exponentially.
Nice that you informed me how it works currently, because I never reported a single post or a person since I joined ProZ, many years ago. Neither I will. Kudos to those who have the time for it.
The only time I would report it is if I saw something illegal or crime-like.
I've reported spam or suspicious clients, but that's something else. I think you are referring to community forums only. ▲ Collapse
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 17:25
Member (2015)
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While I thank you for posting this, I believe the first step for the staff would be fixing all the bugs that many members are facing and rephrasing the rules of the site.
It seems to me this website is now running on autopilot.
| | | | Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 18:25
Member (2009)
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER | Tagging people | Oct 11, 2023 |
What about a feature to tag people (mainly mods) in posts in the web 4.0 era?
(Here we have still 1.5, which is not all that bad IMO)
| | | | Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:25
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
| Nobody listens | Oct 11, 2023 |
Or, more accurately, nobody acts. I can only think of one change in the forum over the past decade, which was the ability to like posts. That's it. They could have moved the forum to Discourse for free, basically, and brought the whole thing into the twenty-first century, but nope.
And think of all the other gimmicks on which the have wasted time and money, like TM Town (hah!) and most recently ChatGPT.
I'm sure they're nice people, but the community exists despite thei... See more Or, more accurately, nobody acts. I can only think of one change in the forum over the past decade, which was the ability to like posts. That's it. They could have moved the forum to Discourse for free, basically, and brought the whole thing into the twenty-first century, but nope.
And think of all the other gimmicks on which the have wasted time and money, like TM Town (hah!) and most recently ChatGPT.
I'm sure they're nice people, but the community exists despite their benign neglect.
Regards,
Dan ▲ Collapse
| | | | Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 18:25
Member (2009)
English to German
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TOPIC STARTER
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