Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65203&edit=1

 ID:                 65203
 Updated by:         [email protected]
 Reported by:        ryan at rmauger dot co dot uk
 Summary:            Please add a feature to report potentially dangerous
                     code examples in comments
 Status:             Assigned
 Type:               Feature/Change Request
 Package:            Website problem
 Operating System:   n/a
 PHP Version:        Irrelevant
 Assigned To:        googleguy
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

We wanted user contributed notes to be self moderating; as in, the community 
voting down those notes which did not appeal to the broader audience would 
ultimately lead to the note being pushed down to the bottom of the page where 
fewer users were likely to spot it immediately. On the flip side, notes, which 
the community at large, found to be of higher relevance/quality would get 
pushed up to the top where most people would see them. I can't say that this 
has worked out perfectly thus far, but it has made a slight impact on weeding 
out the contributions of lesser quality/relevance.

As always, good judgement and caution should be practiced when using any code 
found in the user contributed notes section of php.net as these notes are not 
generally moderated often enough. There isn't enough man power to moderate all 
of them and so we depend on people voting down the bad ones or reporting them 
here on bugs.php.net

I'm not sure what impact the report as spam functionality will have on removing 
those notes. Once again, the problem is limited man power paying attention to 
user contributed notes.

Ideally I would rather have everything become a lot more autonomous so that too 
many reports of spam or too many negative votes would ultimately remove the 
note and as such less moderation would be required.

The user contributed notes on php.net should be moderated directly by its 
community, in my own humble opinion. However, this is a lot easier said than 
done due to the inability to limit the abuse of such a system. These issues 
have been raised in the past and not everyone agrees on how this should be 
implemented.


Previous Comments:
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[2013-10-11 00:57:24] [email protected]

Sherif, you want to have a look at "Report as spam"/"Report as unsafe" for user 
contributed comments?

Unsure if it is needed though, comments with negative votes should be removed...

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[2013-07-09 18:30:37] ryan at rmauger dot co dot uk

Please mention that I am willing to collaborate if extra man-power is needed to 
help make it possible

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[2013-07-09 18:27:24] [email protected]

No apologies necessary.  I'm checking with one of the guys who has done 
substantial work on improving the notes system to see if he wants to take on 
the 
challenge.

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[2013-07-09 18:22:48] ryan at rmauger dot co dot uk

Apologies Dan, I misunderstood the significance of the status change to 
'feedback'

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[2013-07-09 18:21:01] [email protected]

No, it didn't miss the point, it was merely an update, Ryan.  Otherwise I'd 
have 
closed the report.

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