Slightly later than planned (due mostly to the holiday season and people's lives away from SN being hectic) the next bunch of updates for the site is ready to go. It's a bumper crop!
We have some further changes to the moderation system. As before, this is certainly not the end of changes in this area, rather another step along the road of improvement. We will be watching how the changes affect moderation usage with a view to further improvements.
There's also a number of more general improvements and bug fixes.
All being well these changes should go live around 03:00 26th January UTC. So no need for alarm if there's some minor site disruption at that point. Changes went live at approximately 22:00 31st January UTC.
As always, feedback will be welcome once this deployed.
A major thanks to TheMightyBuzzard for the bulk of the work, paulej72 for sanity checking and martyb for testing/QA.
More details after the break....
Admin Note: it looks like we found a late breaking bug that is a blocker for this update. Spam mods are not showing up to the admins with the proper unmodding options. We will update when we find the issue. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next day or so.
General Changes
An honourable mention...
New functionality that didn't quite make it into the final cut for this update, but is available for testing on our dev environment.
As always, feedback will be welcome once this deployed.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 25 2015, @07:03PM
If you can't keep yourself from modding something Spam when it's not, that's on you and you'll just have to live with the consequences. You're literally sitting there arguing for the ability to abuse the moderation system to shut people up at will. Us, we're putting out a proposed solution and letting the users decide. Did you miss the part where we put up two posts requesting comment on this then took the overwhelming support as an okay to go ahead?
Damned tyrannical of us, I know.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Sunday January 25 2015, @07:21PM
Anoms can't moderate anyway, what's anom worried about?
subicular junctures
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday January 25 2015, @08:07PM
People with accounts can post anonymously.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 26 2015, @05:32PM
You are really abusing the mod system, by blocking posters that disagree with you STRONGLY!
AC gives us a voice without trail... EXCEPT YOU ARE TRACKING web-finger-prints to put it all back together.
Good show! Great Hypocrisy.
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 26 2015, @07:56PM
Troll, troll, troll your boat...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.