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@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@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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