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| Given all the additional tasks that will have to be performed by the administrator when all the functionality of the moderation package is enabled, I think it would be a good idea to allow administrators to create a type of user dedicated to moderating the website. This type of user, the moderator, would perform all functions related to making sure that the user input process proceeds smoothly. I belive this type of user would be greatly appreciated by website owners who want to employ not just administrators with rather broad permissions, but also editors/moderators with less permissions (and hence less chance to break something).
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| ''Advanced Functionality''
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| -A list of functionality that might be interested to implement long-term.
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| -* Wiki news articles.
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| -* Granting additional influence to users based on their merit.
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| -''Work in progress!''
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| +In addition to the previously mentioned functionality that could be added, there's also slightly more advanced functionality possible that might be a bit tricky to implement but interesting nonetheless. |
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| +The first interesting idea is to give users additional influence based on positively contributing to the website. This could be measured by e.g. the average rating of the users' contributions, the amount of contributions or the amount of moderation performed. Based on their merit users would be given additional weight to their input. Another possibility is to publically display the average rating of a users' contributions to demonstrate the value of the user to the community. |
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| +A second interesting idea relates to automatic moderation of wiki pages. This would be made possible if bitweaver would not only keep records of the average rating of a wiki page, but also the average rating for every revision. This would help to detect vandalism, spam or simply low-quality user contributions. If a signifgicant drop in the rating of the wiki would be detected, the wiki could either automatically revert to a previous version or notify a moderator/administrator. In combination with keeping tally of the average quality of a user's contribution, this would also help detect users that consistently input low quality contributions (e.g. spam or vandalism). |
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| +The final suggestion I'd like to make would be to combine automated approval of news articles with automated moderation of wiki pages. By keeping news articles editable as if they were wiki pages while they are waiting for approval in the news room (or even after approval, depending on administrator preference), the quality of the article quality could be improved by a distributed effort until it meets the quality standards deemed necessery. |
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| +I hope this overview will get a discussion started and I look forward to your ideas and critiques! |
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