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>A confirm dialog may help. I'm not really a fan of dialogs in flow if it can be avoided, at least not without trying other indicators first, but I would agree

by xoa 3y ago

>A confirm dialog may help. I'm not really a fan of dialogs in flow if it can be avoided, at least not without trying other indicators first, but I would agree some UX experimentation might be worthwhile. Like rather then have it simply go to "unflag", a two letter difference purely in gray, also have it turn bold/bright red for an hour? At least as an option? I just tried playing with the CSS and flagging/unflagging your post, and setting [unflag] to color:red;font-weight:bold makes a real difference without being obnoxious.

kelnos 3y ago
Another option would be to add more statuses. When a comment gets enough flags, it gets "[flagged]" added to the top of it. Perhaps something like "[you flagged]" could help.
- nmstoker 3y ago
  I suppose you could change further aspects of the current behaviour, but the issue with that idea is that the flagged items disappear currently, so you wouldn't get to see the "[you flagged]" entry, unless you got to the comments page for it via some other means (eg jumping to it from your browser history)
  - kelnos 3y ago
    Ah, good call. I have "showdead" enabled, so I see flagged/dead entries, and didn't think of this. (I do actually often enough find dead comments that IMO deserve to be seen, and vouch for them.) When you flag something, does it disappear immediately, or only if it's received enough flags to be killed? If the latter, then I think this is much less of a problem. Sure, you may have flagged it by accident, but if it was only one flag away from being killed, it'd probably end up getting intentionally flagged again by someone else soon enough.
    - nmstoker 3y ago
      Sorry, I may have got this wrong! I honestly thought they got removed but it looks like this isn't happening for me (at least not right away), unless it's the scenario you mention where it's only one away from being killed. I think I must have been conflating the behaviour for hide with flag.
marginalia_nu 3y ago
I think destructive/high-consequence flows is the one case where dialogs are prudent. Dialogs add a lot of friction and extra actions, but that is sometimes a good thing (nobody ever complained about a poolside not being slippery enough). There's a reason why the emergency services requires you to enter three digits when dialing. Sure it would be a smoother flow if you only had to press a single button or dial '9', but you'd also get a lot more butt dials.

by xoa 3y ago

kelnos 3y ago

Another option would be to add more statuses. When a comment gets enough flags, it gets "[flagged]" added to the top of it. Perhaps something like "[you flagged]" could help.

nmstoker 3y ago
I suppose you could change further aspects of the current behaviour, but the issue with that idea is that the flagged items disappear currently, so you wouldn't get to see the "[you flagged]" entry, unless you got to the comments page for it via some other means (eg jumping to it from your browser history)
- kelnos 3y ago
  Ah, good call. I have "showdead" enabled, so I see flagged/dead entries, and didn't think of this. (I do actually often enough find dead comments that IMO deserve to be seen, and vouch for them.) When you flag something, does it disappear immediately, or only if it's received enough flags to be killed? If the latter, then I think this is much less of a problem. Sure, you may have flagged it by accident, but if it was only one flag away from being killed, it'd probably end up getting intentionally flagged again by someone else soon enough.
  - nmstoker 3y ago
    Sorry, I may have got this wrong! I honestly thought they got removed but it looks like this isn't happening for me (at least not right away), unless it's the scenario you mention where it's only one away from being killed. I think I must have been conflating the behaviour for hide with flag.

marginalia_nu 3y ago

I think destructive/high-consequence flows is the one case where dialogs are prudent. Dialogs add a lot of friction and extra actions, but that is sometimes a good thing (nobody ever complained about a poolside not being slippery enough). There's a reason why the emergency services requires you to enter three digits when dialing. Sure it would be a smoother flow if you only had to press a single button or dial '9', but you'd also get a lot more butt dials.