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posted by NCommander on Thursday April 10 2014, @05:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-we-accidently-implemented-something-we-promised-is-it-still-a-bug? dept.
I'm pleased to announce that moderate then post has now been implemented. In truth, its been implemented since the last major update due to a bug. Before releasing slashcode 14.04, I was experimenting with moderate^post code on dev, and the code was merged in with the basis that it would be enabled as part of the moderation reworks. Theoretically, this code should have been disabled. In actuality, I skewed a variable; the global that controls this functionality was not 100% properly implemented.

mrcoolbp noticed the bug today, and seeing as we needed a code change either way to properly fix it, I decided to roll this bit of the moderation rework out early. I'm not thrilled on squishing two bugs in production on the same day, and I'm going to be working with the dev team to get a rigorous QA plan put together (which will be posted here) before we do any more major updates to the site.

Until then, enjoy the new functionality.

NCommander adds: I'm giving this a one time bump on the main index as it was posted very late for US based users. We *really really* need a featured story feature.
 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by NCommander on Thursday April 10 2014, @05:58AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Thursday April 10 2014, @05:58AM (#29289) Homepage Journal

    Actually, the prevent IP check has been there from day one (its per subnet actually, you can't moderate anything on the same /24 as you). I'm willing to loosen moderate/post restrictions further, but this is one of those baby step things.

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    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +3  
       Informative=3, Total=3
    Extra 'Informative' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   5  
  • (Score: 1) by J053 on Friday April 11 2014, @02:18AM

    by J053 (3532) <reversethis-{xc. ... s} {ta} {enikad}> on Friday April 11 2014, @02:18AM (#29807) Homepage
    Of course, that presents a problem for those of us on a NATed subnet with lots of potential users - if I moderate a post, nobody else from my organization can then mod? (Naturally, i/we are reading SN from work ;-) ) Maybe have the IP check timeout after an hour or so?
    • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday April 11 2014, @04:52AM

      by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Friday April 11 2014, @04:52AM (#29865) Homepage Journal

      No one from your organization can mod your specific post; they can still mod in general. This is behavior we inhertied, and as will all things, requires thought.

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