System for reporting quotes in violation of site rules
By teil0 - updated: 9 years, 11 months ago - 6 messages
It would be nice if there were some way to flag quotes that break the no song lyrics / religion rules.
You can now flag quotes. Go to the page of any quote and use the flag drop-down menu next to "rate this quote". I will manually review problematic quotes. I will not delete any quotes. I will just move them to the "do not use in typing test" category.
Let me know if you have any feedback.
By marc3 - posted: 10 years ago
That's a good idea. I will work on that next. Can you think of other reasons a quote should be flagged?
By teil0 - posted: 10 years ago
One that comes to mind: Quotes that are in the wrong language.
Then there are reasons that not everyone may agree with:
Quotes that are padded with extra punctuation or introductions from the submitter, in order to meet the minimum length requirement.
Quotes that are a bunch of words rather than sentences.
And my favorite: Quotes that are not actual quotes, but the submitter's attempt at profundity.
Yeah, probably not much hope of the last one. ;)
I will go on record as saying that, to be fair, quotes that attack or denigrate religion should fall under the "no religion" rule also.
Updated 10 years ago
By marc3 - posted: 10 years ago
Here are the labels I am going to use
- Wrong language
- Religious / Against religion
- Song lyrics
- Incomplete / Invalid
- Bad grammar
About the "attempt at profundity", that would be a good one :-) but I believe the rating system is the tool that is taking care of that.
By marc3 - posted: 9 years, 12 months ago
You can now flag quotes. Go to the page of any quote and use the flag drop-down menu next to "rate this quote". I will manually review problematic quotes. I will not delete any quotes. I will just move them to the "do not use in typing test" category.
Let me know if you have any feedback.
By kaikaikaikaikai - posted: 9 years, 12 months ago
Great job marc! I just hope the manual reviewing won't cost you too much time.
By marc3 - posted: 9 years, 11 months ago
I will see how it goes. Maybe I will automate the process later on. I could automatically mark a quote as "not for typing test" if it has been flagged X times.