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Opened 18 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#4768 closed defect (bug) (worksforme)

Make comment moderation buttons more intuitive

Reported by: novasource's profile novasource Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Administration Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description (last modified by foolswisdom)

The comment moderation buttons (Yes/No) that you get after clicking on link in a "Please moderate: [comment name]" email are needlessly unintuitive.

If you click on the Delete It, Spam It, or Approve It links, you get a prompt followed by Yes/No. This requires the user to pause and figure out what Yes corresponds do: keep it? Spam it? Delete it? Save it? Show it?

Two suggested workarounds:

  1. (Preferred) Show one dialog for each comment, and provide three buttons: Approve, Delete, and Spam.
  1. If you must maintain the "Approve it/Delete it/Spam it" links in the email, at least use something intuitive in the button names. E.g., instead of "Caution: You are about to mark the following comment as spam: Are you sure you want to do that? Yes/No", replace the question with "Please confirm your choice:", and the buttons could be something like "Mark as Spam" and "Do nothing". The same would need to happen to the views you get after clicking on the "Delete it" or "Approve it" links.

Change History (4)

#1 @novasource
18 years ago

Argh, if someone can edit the Description above, please change my two suggested workarounds (which I inadvertently named 1. and 1.) to a proper ordered list.

#2 @foolswisdom
18 years ago

  • Description modified (diff)
  • Milestone changed from 2.3 (trunk) to 2.4 (future)

novasource, patches are appreciated ;-) As I think I have commented on a couple of your tickets before sometimes recording the bug doesn't get it closer to being fixed. This sort of bugs are a great opportunity for you to demonstrate "shipping is better than thnking"

It is also essential that you identify related bugs, even if the relationship seems very loose.

#3 @darkdragon
18 years ago

  • Component changed from General to Administration

#4 @ninjaWR
18 years ago

  • Milestone 2.5 deleted
  • Resolution set to worksforme
  • Status changed from new to closed

Looks like this was changed already. When I click on the link in the email, I get a page asking "You are about to (approve the following comment | delete the following comment | mark the following comment as spam): Are you sure you want to do that?" depending on what link I followed

My choices there are "No" and an affirmative choice (text depends on what I'm trying to do).

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