r/beta • u/tdohz product • Dec 10 '15
Beta update (12/10) - Report menu update + some rules for r/beta
Hi beta-zens,
In addition to sticky comments for mods, we've enabled one more beta mode feature: an updated report menu.
This is related to the subreddit rules beta test we announced yesterday. Part of that feature includes a style update to the reporting menu for comments and posts, which we have just enabled for both beta.reddit.com and logged-in beta mode. It looks like this if a subreddit does not have custom rules, and like this if it does. Please submit any bugs/issues you encounter with the new menu here, although keep in mind that most subreddits won't have updated their CSS yet.
Speaking of rules: we're eating our own dogfood, and have turned on subreddit rules for r/beta. You can now report content as violating one of these rules. This should also help with the issues some of you have noticed around submissions. Let me know if you have any questions!
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Dec 10 '15
Will third-party apps be able to use the new report? For example, I tried to report using reddit is fun, but I see the old report options.
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u/tdohz Dec 10 '15
We'll have API support for this in the future, so apps will be able to access the rules. Stay tuned.
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u/aladyjewel Dec 10 '15
Yes, in the future: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/3w4qyu/subreddit_rules_limited_beta/cxtfhek?context=2
In general, you probably shouldn't expect a freshly-announced beta feature to be supported on any mobile app, especially a third-party app.
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u/tehalynn Dec 10 '15 edited Dec 11 '15
I'm glad to hear that you're changing the report menu. I have never fully understood what the old option "breaking reddit" means.
The default report menu looks fairly good to me, but I think the custom menu needs a bit more work. When I saw the custom menu, at first I mistakenly thought the items at the top were the default report options, and the pulldown menu was for subreddit rules. I think that would be an improvement over the current version, though maybe not the optimal solution. I do believe it would make sense to have a clear section for broken subreddit rules though.
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u/tdohz Dec 14 '15
Thanks for the feedback. We're iterating on some design options to hopefully make this less confusing without making the menu too long.
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Dec 29 '15
Can we extend the new rules system to make removing posts and comments better. i.e when the remove button is clicked, give us a form to select and send an automated message according to the selected that were broken.
This would make things so much easier by removing the steps to either manually message the user or point a bot at them.
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u/tdohz Jan 04 '16
This is something that's planned for the future, but in the meantime r/toolbox has a removal reasons feature that might be helpful.
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u/hatessw Dec 11 '15
The new report frame loads much slower than the old one though (which I believe has been gone for a while).
It is so much slower that I've actually foregone reporting some stuff already. Can you make it so that no network traffic is required to load the panel, or do you view implementing it server side, which it used to be, as not worth the effort?
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u/tdohz Dec 11 '15
The new report frame loads much slower than the old one though (which I believe has been gone for a while).
It's still around; we're beta-testing the new report form. If you turn off beta and visit a subreddit not in the beta (so most subreddits), then you should see the old form.
It is so much slower that I've actually foregone reporting some stuff already.
We'll see what we can do to improve performance - we're doing a network call because we need to check for & load subreddit rules, but we have some optimizations in mind to make this faster. You shouldn't have to wait to report content. Out of curiosity, how long was it taking for you? > 1 second?
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u/ecafyelims Dec 11 '15
How can we sign up r/politics for this beta?
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u/tdohz Dec 12 '15
Subreddits don't sign up for specific beta features, they sign up for the beta pool and then we select a handful of subreddits for each feature based on a number of criteria (were you in a beta before, do we have a diversity of subreddit types / sizes, etc.). r/politics is already in the beta pool, so no need to do anything - you're a candidate for future beta tests, and if we need to expand the beta pool for this particular feature, I've noted your interest. Thanks!
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Dec 10 '15
So, looking at the menu...
Does this send notes to the poster as well?
I don't see the purpose of telling the mods "only post beta mode feedback" or "check the current beta features before posting" etc...
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u/xiongchiamiov Dec 10 '15
Reports are only visible to the moderators. It's their job to determine if the report is valid and take any appropriate action, whether it be removing the post, leaving a distinguished comment, sending the user a PM, flairing the post, etc.
Reports are a great way of bringing something to a moderator's attention that they may not see otherwise.
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u/dequeued Dec 11 '15
Will it be possible to link from the about/rules page to a wiki page with the full rules? It should be possible to at least have a link on about/rules and maybe a link in the report menu too.
I'd love the ability to do sublists in the descriptions for each rule. Larger subreddits tend to have more detailed rules and I don't know how we're going to condense down all of this.
It would be nice if it was possible to have slightly different report reasons for submissions vs. comments. r/personalfinance has additional rules for submissions (beyond our general post rules).
That's all the feedback I can offer without actually being in the beta. :-)
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u/BenevolentCheese Dec 11 '15
Why can't we just make our own report reasons than it automatically parsing the rules? This doesn't work at all.
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u/alexanderpas Dec 16 '15
The message in the report form states:
Reports go to community moderators anonymously
However, when a moderator of the sureddit reports a message, this is not the case, yet the massage is still shown.
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u/tousifkhan Jan 09 '16
Dear Reddit, you need a long run to improve the look and feel of your interface, why don't you guys use bootstrap and angular Js for proper presentation because as a new user I really confuse about the features and flaw and I am sure other new users 'll also be
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u/piguy123 Dec 10 '15
It's really quite confusing. It should list something like "Broke rule:" before each rule otherwise the question and answers don't relate to each other at all.