On 10/01/2017 02:30, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 1/9/17 5:52 PM, Emma Humphries wrote:
Yes, I posted about that last week to planet mozilla, and when we take
the
changes live, I'll talk about tagging at the Monday meeting. I could also
take that post and cc it to the usual mailing lists.
Please do! The Monday meeting is not very well attended, and not
everyone reads planet. For something like this, where the downside
(account termination for a contributor who didn't do anything wrong) is
so bad, we want to get the message out as far as possible.
I, personally, do skim planet, but I don't recall the post in question
and am now quite unsure what tags I should and should not use in what
situations...
Looking at the patches on the bugs that implemented this (
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936509 ,
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003950 ,
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1146219 ) and the current
state of the extension in the bmo github repo, my understanding (which
glob, cc'd, should feel free to correct) is that accounts only get
disabled if both:
- they don't have canconfirm/editbugs
- either their last N comments were tagged spam/abuse/abusive, or their
first N comments were tagged spam/abuse/abusive
where I believe N is currently set to either 3 or 5. From my reading of
the implementation, at first glance it also seems like we only do this
if the set of N comments all have the same tag, so just tagging some
spam and some abuse/abusive won't disable an account.
In summary, I don't think off-topic will currently have negative
effects, nor will self-tagging as spam (because to tag you need
editbugs, and we won't disable accounts with editbugs automatically
right now). This is specifically meant for people who do pretty much
nothing but be abusive/spammy, which we had a substantial set of a few
years ago. (hi Australis!)
Of course, if comments are outdated "obsolete" may indeed be more
semantically correct than "spam". :-)
~ Gijs
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