Flag content as inappropriate

[Taitrnator]

• need a feature to flag content as inappropriate.

[sailorseashell]

I found a gem that we might be able to use to extend our api to add this behavior! @davidgrieser, what do you think of this?

[sailorseashell]

Anyone care to weigh in here?

[davidgrieser]

Really this is just a flag or count of people marking as inappropriate. If it goes over a threshold, lets say 5, then active/visible status should just change to false until an admin reviews it. It is nice to see that a user flagged a post, but I'm not sure what the limits are from the gem. Keeping track of who is flagging posts would be beneficial though. Also, tracking who posts what. So that if someone is getting consistently flagged posts, their account is disabled until an admin reviews it.

Just my 2¢

[sailorseashell]

I wish I had built in user permission handling in advance. It looks like this gem would support all of the features that you're describing. We can already track who posts what. Every "Pothole" model is owned by a User. We can also see who is flagging what posts. I think having a user be disabled until review after creating a bunch of flagged posts would be a great feature as well! Really necessary if we're even going to have a content flagging system.

[davidgrieser]

It is compatible with Rails 4. So this should work.