Do mods and users see MetaFilter differently? May 4, 2008 7:58 PM   Subscribe

What does MetaFilter look like to moderators?

Do you have all kinds of extra buttons and nifty stuff to help you delete or edit lame posts and comments, or do you have to sift through a ton of code and HTML gobbledygook when you have to make those changes? (Screenshots?)

Are there any functions or shortcuts you'd like to see on your end of things to make your lives easier?
posted by HotPatatta to MetaFilter-Related at 7:58 PM (56 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite

we have small edit/delete buttons on stuff and IP addresses, but that's about it.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:02 PM on May 4, 2008


What does MetaFilter look like to moderators?

like this...
posted by jonmc at 8:04 PM on May 4, 2008 [17 favorites]


jessamyn posted a description of what kinds of admin features there are around flagging a while back, including a blurred-for-your-protection view of the admin stuff.
posted by burnmp3s at 8:05 PM on May 4, 2008


The blurred view, with the "two days since a bannin'" panel, REALLY makes me want that panel somewhere publicly visible.

How long since a bannin'?
posted by dirtdirt at 8:11 PM on May 4, 2008


for noobs
posted by netbros at 8:32 PM on May 4, 2008


Darn, I always pictured something like this (complete with uniforms, naturally).
posted by lukemeister at 8:35 PM on May 4, 2008


like this
posted by pyramid termite at 8:42 PM on May 4, 2008


Like a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
posted by nanojath at 8:51 PM on May 4, 2008 [11 favorites]


A throbbing mass of problems.
posted by klangklangston at 8:53 PM on May 4, 2008 [1 favorite]


This is it - you can see Matt right up the front, on the right-hand side.
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:56 PM on May 4, 2008 [3 favorites]


Something like this
posted by Sailormom at 8:59 PM on May 4, 2008


How long since a bannin'?

That number almost never goes above two. Otherwise MeFi looks the same to us as everyone else except we have the admin panel.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:03 PM on May 4, 2008


I thought it was simply this.
posted by YoBananaBoy at 9:08 PM on May 4, 2008


That number almost never goes above two.

Wow, I bet is was more like weeks or months in the first few years. Are these mostly self linking interlopers?
posted by caddis at 9:17 PM on May 4, 2008


The bans are a mix of self-link/SEO jerks, timeouts (those reset the clock), and self-closures. Two or three days without one of those happening is, yeah, kind of rare as it turns out.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:18 PM on May 4, 2008


I think this.
posted by maxwelton at 9:21 PM on May 4, 2008 [2 favorites]


I don't think we've ever seen that number above six? seven? It's mostly SEO jerks with the occasional timeout/ban.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:24 PM on May 4, 2008


some of us are just asking for a banning. Did you see what I was wearing? How could I not expect to get banned.

Buy my shit.
posted by allen.spaulding at 9:29 PM on May 4, 2008


I prefer to think it looks and sounds like this.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:30 PM on May 4, 2008


THEY CAN SEE THE CODE!
posted by Artw at 9:34 PM on May 4, 2008


Obviously, this.
posted by Dave Faris at 9:42 PM on May 4, 2008 [5 favorites]


It seems like this question is asked every six months or so.
posted by !Jim at 9:43 PM on May 4, 2008


In case anyone actually wants to see it, you might try this, from here.
posted by Upton O'Good at 10:16 PM on May 4, 2008


Are dersins and cortex cool with having their IPs up on that?
posted by jacalata at 10:27 PM on May 4, 2008


The definitive answer.

Cuz I said so.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 10:34 PM on May 4, 2008 [3 favorites]


Images of our new european admin have leaked.
posted by Free word order! at 11:12 PM on May 4, 2008


The bans are a mix of self-link/SEO jerks, timeouts (those reset the clock), and self-closures.
--cortex

Why self closures? Sure it probably doesn't happen as often as the other stuff, but it just doesn't seem to fit.
posted by philomathoholic at 11:17 PM on May 4, 2008


Looks like the stress is getting to jessamyn.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:20 PM on May 4, 2008 [1 favorite]


THEY CAN SEE THE CODE!
--Artw

While looking for a screenshot of that one guy watching the matrix on the computer monitors talking about blondes and redheads, I found these two pictures of what mefi hq might look like.
posted by philomathoholic at 11:25 PM on May 4, 2008


As much as I am glad the [IMG] tag is defunct, there are times I wish it could rise briefly from the dead. This thread is one of those times.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:10 AM on May 5, 2008


If you go to meet-ups, you might get a glimpse.
posted by Marie Mon Dieu at 5:28 AM on May 5, 2008


This is MeFi command in the future. As you can see, mathowie has gotten a little pudgy and his hair is white and thinning, but the glasses are a dead giveaway.
posted by TedW at 5:41 AM on May 5, 2008


IM transcript of mods:

What the hell is that?! [ squints ] What the hell is that? [ chuckling at himself ] What's that danged thing doing here! How did that get here? What the hell is that?! [ squints ] What the hell is that?! How'd that dang deal get here?! [ turns off-camera ] Hey! Come on over here and look at this deal!
posted by lukemeister at 6:04 AM on May 5, 2008


Are dersins and cortex cool with having their IPs up on that?

Eh.

Why self closures? Sure it probably doesn't happen as often as the other stuff, but it just doesn't seem to fit.

No compelling reason; they're a variety of the internal "ban" event, and the days-since counter just keeps track of those. We could make pb do some work to exclude those, but, eh.
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:46 AM on May 5, 2008


It's full of stars.
posted by onlyconnect at 8:08 AM on May 5, 2008 [2 favorites]


Strangely, people seem to forget that mathowie (accidentally?) posted a picture of the mod view of metafilter almost two years ago.
posted by Viomeda at 9:16 AM on May 5, 2008


two years ago last year

I was looking at the timestamp on the image, not the thread
posted by Viomeda at 9:18 AM on May 5, 2008


Here is a crappy but genuine photo. It's very simple but very slick. It was so beautiful, it hurt my eyes.
posted by ulotrichous at 10:00 AM on May 5, 2008 [1 favorite]


people seem to forget that mathowie (accidentally?) posted a picture of the mod view of metafilter

Oh, look! My IP address! Cool!
posted by dersins at 10:56 AM on May 5, 2008 [1 favorite]


You know dersins, I don't want to be weird or anything but I really like the way our inadvertantly disclosed IP addresses look together.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:59 AM on May 5, 2008 [1 favorite]


Is your IP address, like, doing anything Friday night?
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:59 AM on May 5, 2008 [3 favorites]


Well, it was going to go out on the town, have a couple of cocktails, maybe a beer or two, and see what happens, but now I think it's just gonna stay home and mask itself.
posted by dersins at 11:05 AM on May 5, 2008


I think it looks like the lot of you going, "What does it look like to you?" and giving wise-ass answers that approximate the truth. Am I close?

(I've declined to look behind the curtain during the two meetups where I had the chance. mathowie's screen was too small. jessamyn's was too crowded. pb's looked too much like a camera; I was scared. cortex &nbsp doesn't really exist &nbsp &nbsp is a very handsome man.)
posted by not_on_display at 11:12 AM on May 5, 2008


damn you html! I welcome our new text overlords.
posted by not_on_display at 11:13 AM on May 5, 2008


but now I think it's just gonna stay home and mask itself

Oh yeah well it has smelly armpits anyway so maybe I should just give it some BAN.

cortex doesn't really exist

One of these days I'll get some sort of mobile computing phone device thing with the WAP and the DATA FEEDS and all that. For now, when I got to a meetup, I either haul my big-ass laptop or keep my hands free for more efficient beer drinkin'.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:22 AM on May 5, 2008


Now, there's a man with his priorities sorted!
posted by dg at 2:14 PM on May 5, 2008


Oh please bring back inline image tags, oh please!
posted by DenOfSizer at 7:38 PM on May 5, 2008


i always imagine this
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 5:09 AM on May 6, 2008 [1 favorite]


'Remove FFP'
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:52 PM on May 6, 2008


This is my take.
posted by Chrysostom at 8:13 PM on May 6, 2008


So, do you admins ever flag posts?
posted by Citizen Premier at 3:27 AM on May 7, 2008


Every once in a while, as a stopgap measure, I'll flag something if I notice it when I'm walking out the door and think it isn't slam-dunk deleteable but still needs mod consideration. This is a habit I picked up from Jessamyn, I think.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:13 AM on May 7, 2008


I'll flag something if I notice it when I'm walking out the door and think it isn't slam-dunk deleteable but still needs mod consideration.

Ah yes, the old flag-and-run, yeah I do this sometimes too. While our first view of the flags doesn't show who flagged things, we can look one level deeper and see this. If I know cortex flagged but didn't delete something I'll know it's something he was wavering on. Usually we just email each other about things like that though.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:00 AM on May 7, 2008


I look forward to us being crochety old moderators, sitting on porch rocking chairs and smoking pipes and telling stories about The Old Internet to young whippersnapper, partly because these stories will include interjections like "Ah, yes, the old flag-and-run..."
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:09 AM on May 7, 2008 [3 favorites]


I look forward to us being crochety old moderators, sitting on porch rocking chairs and smoking pipes and telling stories about The Old Internet

If you want to see a good approximation of what that will be like, watch the BBS Documentary, and mentally switch things like FidoNet to MeFiMail and SysOp to mod.
posted by burnmp3s at 1:04 PM on May 7, 2008


I would like to thank the moderator overlords for keeping the image tag out of MeFi. It was a very good idea on their part, and I'm sure a very hard decision to make or to keep steadfast in the wake of opposing opinion. On occasion, I'm somewhere where the image tag would make it less appealing to explore MeFi. NSFW and all that.

Given the circumstances, it was the best choice they could make, and I really wish people would quit beating that dead horse, when there's so many other better deader horses to beat, like what MeFi looks like on the mods' side of things. That's a question that just never gets old... well, unless you're a mod, I reckon.
posted by ZachsMind at 9:40 AM on May 11, 2008


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