https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49087
--- Comment #38 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to TeleComNasSprVen from comment #36) > As I understand the feature from having a brief read through the tech news, > the Notifications/Thanks feature was developed by the Editor Engagement > Experience team, in order to try and strike a fine balance between trying to > draw in newer editors by introducing a friendly "Likes" feature and > simultaneously keeping it ephemeral and private enough to avoid the public > scrutiny of the "We are not Facebook" crowd. Of course, as a feature design, > it's extremely difficult to reach that balance without tilting too much one > way or the other. I'm surprised that people did not know about the design > choice to keep a log public while not revealing the target edit of the > Thanks (avoiding point-scoring). > > At the same time, the third previously unaccounted-for aspect of this > feature, which is the accountability, and subsequently the abuse, did not > seem to be properly addressed. Perhaps we should make something even as > trivial as a friendly thank you message to someone else, subject to intense > scrutiny, curation, triple-checking and investigation for abuse by > oversighters or whatever powers that be. It is unclear to me that it is in fact possible to really abuse the feature. Consider the following: - You can't write a custom message with the thanks, so the notification contents is always friendly. - The use of thanks is rate limited. If we want, we can talk about whether to increase that rate limit. Accountability doesn't really enter into the matter when thanks is a standardized action with no negative consequences, with the exception of sending an excessive/annoying number of notifications. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
