I understand the premise, but I disagree. A lot of apps that I use don't have maintainers. However, the comments are typically helpful. I believe this should be approached differently.
"André Hentschel" nerv@dawncrow.de wrote:
Am 28.04.2013 18:57, schrieb Rosanne DiMesio:
Forced moderation of comments could work for apps with maintainers
who are doing their job, but most of the spam I recently deleted was in unmaintained apps. My suggestion would be to block comments altogether on unmaintained apps, not just because of spam, but because of other inappropriate things that are not being monitored, such as posting links to illegal downloads. As for the maintainers who clearly aren't doing their jobs (about 20-25% of the spam I found was in entries with maintainers), admins already have the capability of removing them.
include/version.php | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/version.php b/include/version.php index 8f02b24..bf1d7ab 100644 --- a/include/version.php +++ b/include/version.php @@ -1180,9 +1180,12 @@ class version {
echo note::displayNotesForEntry($this->iVersionId);
// Comments Sectionif($this->iVersionId)Comment::view_app_comments($this->iVersionId);
if(sizeof($aMaintainers)>0){// Display comments section in case version hasmaintainers
if($this->iVersionId)Comment::view_app_comments($this->iVersionId);}}
public static function lookup_name($versionId)
-- 1.7.10.4
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:47:25 -0400 Christopher Cope ccope3@utk.edu wrote:
I understand the premise, but I disagree. A lot of apps that I use don't have maintainers. However, the comments are typically helpful. I believe this should be approached differently.
So volunteer to be a maintainer.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.netwrote:
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:47:25 -0400 Christopher Cope ccope3@utk.edu wrote:
I understand the premise, but I disagree. A lot of apps that I use don't
have maintainers. However, the comments are typically helpful. I believe this should be approached differently.
So volunteer to be a maintainer.
Say a program had a volunteer working on it, and there were some comments explaining how to make it work (e.g. winetricks, ...), or work better
So now, if the maintainer leaves, all the comments will be lost/invisible?
That seems a bit harsh: you probably can't expect users to follow workarounds scattered across associated bugs, can you?
Furthermore, there's already a comment telling sthg along the lines of "this program wasn't tested with a recent wine version". Isn't that sufficient already?
Frédéric
On Thu, 2 May 2013 11:35:28 +0200 Frédéric Delanoy frederic.delanoy@gmail.com wrote:
That seems a bit harsh: you probably can't expect users to follow workarounds scattered across associated bugs, can you?
I do it every day.
Furthermore, there's already a comment telling sthg along the lines of "this program wasn't tested with a recent wine version". Isn't that sufficient already?
How exactly is that going to prevent spam in comments?
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.netwrote:
On Thu, 2 May 2013 11:35:28 +0200 Frédéric Delanoy frederic.delanoy@gmail.com wrote:
Furthermore, there's already a comment telling sthg along the lines of "this program wasn't tested with a recent wine version". Isn't that sufficient already?
How exactly is that going to prevent spam in comments?
This won't prevent it, but I'm not sure hiding/disabling comments won't do more harm than good. In other words, my objection was just that we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
IMHO comments/instructions on the appdb entries are more important than the occasional spam. If the problem is so important, would it be feasible to add sthg like a captcha to at least avoid automated spam?
Frédéric
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