A "blocking message" could be a tool for sysops/patrollers/whatelse, in my
experience as a local sysop I often had to block people for 15 minutes with
reason "please read [link to talkpage]".
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Il 03 settembre 2014 05:25:34 MZMcBride <[email protected]> ha scritto:
Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
>You use the past tense. I *still* clamor for the Orange Bar of Death.
>When I leave someone a message on a talk page, chances are very good
>that message is something along the lines of "if you do that again, your
>account will be blocked until you agree to stop". I want to be certain
>that the message has been seen before proceeding to the obvious next step.
Due to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness>, a tendency to use
confusing jargon, and the fact that you'd often click to a diff rather
than a formatted and focused view of the message itself, I imagine many
people didn't properly receive, much less acknowledge, your messages.
Having a notification that users are required to manually acknowledge
prior to being able to continue to edit might be an idea worth considering
(though it feels very manipulative and coercive to me). There are other
potential solutions to consider as well, but we really shouldn't pretend
as though the anxiety-producing orange bar of death was some kind of gift
from God. I think we can do better. :-)
In Echo, we should address the blaring red Echo number soon. For users who
have opted in to link addition notifications, for example, the current
level of URGENCY in the coloring is disproportionate and excessive.
Related discussions:
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55359
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56476
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59185
When I hop around mediawiki.org currently, I'm being incessantly poked in
the eye by a very bright "61" because I had the audacity to watch a talk
page. Clearly this is broken. Of course I also have the string "new
messages (2,312)" from LiquidThreads rewritten as "noise" using per-user
JavaScript, so at this point I'm just continuing to pray that the Flow
team has made a best effort to learn from past mistakes.
MZMcBride
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