https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40511

--- Comment #9 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> 2012-09-27 23:59:13 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> 
> Sadly I think this is pretty high risk right now. We don't currently have any
> other way to delete moodbar comments, the hide function is the ONLY way, after
> that the next escalation is to manually edit the database. This leads us to
> some major issues and the hidden feedback includes things that would normall 
> be
> oversighted such as libel or personal information. This is problematic for 
> even
> sysops to have access to but, I believe, has been a compromise until a full OS
> option is available. In my opinion it seems absolutely unacceptable to have
> autoconfirmed users able to view and undelete at the very least without legal
> approval and a much comprehensive community consensus (with them having a full
> understanding of what they are giving away).
> 

The hide/unhide feature was not built with the oversight use case in mind,
clearly. It wasn't even built for deletion. I don't like starting from the
assumption that we should use it as such, because it means that it gives us an
excuse to lag on building in oversight, and in the meantime cripple the
community's ability to deal with the other kinds of feedback that really need
to be removed.

The number of cases where this scenario would happen are much much smaller than
the amount of really poor feedback or regular vandalism which need to be
removed from the queue. Rather than playing to the edge case here for the tiny
minority of content that merits oversight, I would like us to build in what's
necessary to have a real oversight tool, not misuse something that should be
more widely available and for a different purpose.

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