Here’s a collection of different ideas for improvement, suggested by myself, Nathalie, Nick and Vas. The ordering in categories below is mine only, so it’s something we can discuss as group whether something should be more or less prioritized.
Should be fixed
- add notification to person affected when decision is made
- if you stop being a mediator, maybe should also relinquish your issue-mediator roles
- make it easier to find where to edit group’s report guidelines. Maybe better in the agreements section?
- longest possible time period for a sanctions does not work: both for blocking from group and from activities at certain places. That is when choosing the time limit of one year, but one day before that works!
- restrict role is showing archived roles and allows mediator to access them
- inconsistency in the number of issues displayed on sidenav and issues page, probably after you leave your role as a mediator (gotta test more!)
Should be decided
- decision cannot be reversed. Maybe it should? Think about long-term blocking from group or activities.
- visibility of issues
- is it clear enough for non-mediators what is made visible for whom?
- It’d be nice to have the number of ongoing issues for everybody to see for sake of transparency in the group.
- if you are sanctioned for activities, maybe should remove users, or with a checkbox “also remove them from activities they are signed up”
improvements for the future
- add a comment field for other sanctions
- make it possible to block someone from all roles
- very sad icon next to the reporter, maybe change?
- tell where “comment and close” decision will be displayed
- could be nice to define a ‘process to get role’ field for mediator, even if system role
- activity sanction should maybe let you sign up to activities beyond the expiry date (so the date range would apply to when the activity takes place, not when you can sign up)
- can only start reports from the user profile, not from the issue list (but would be fine to have that too in the future)
- could do with some more history entries
- if a user is sanctioned for a role, should they still be able to receive trust for that role? (currently: yes)
- include number of issues started on group’s weekly digest
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