I've thought about this a fair bit and it's actually a non-trivial problem. Not
technically, mind you - technically, it's trivial.
The problem lies with the whole revert/communicate, or warn/communicate problem. We have
no way for administrators/sysops to mark comments in discussions as being "in my role
as administrator," and people who are "ignoring" said discussion bits may
very well cause greater problems.
Ignoring people by actually ignoring people tends to work pretty well.
On Aug 11, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Perhaps the easiest place to start with this sort of
opt-in ignoring would
be in discussions; thus I filed a request for a Flow feature
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69404 : "preference to
ignore comments from specific users ("killfile")". Thank you for the
idea,
svetlana.
Sumana Harihareswara
Senior Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 8:49 AM, svetlana <svetlana(a)fastmail.com.au> wrote:
Use-case: someone is being annoying, but is
willing to ignore me
voluntarily on-wiki.
Are there any software tools which may assist them in this where doing so
is O.K. (such as not showing my edits in review queue where a page defaults
to old stable version anyway, hiding my edits from recent changes and
watchlists, etc)?
In such cases there is a potential that I do some harm behind their closed
eyes (such as malicious edits) so there needs to be a fine line where the
target user is, for example, a reviewer.
I searched on the web but I couldn't find past related software,
documentation, or discussions.
svetlana
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