Report Report Report!

[safeinsanity]

Ok, what's with all of the "Report" buttons all over our profiles? It's kind of annoying. On my status posts on people's replies is a report button where it should be a reply button. I want to reply to member's comments, not report them, which I accidentally just did to one of @mist 's comments. I thought I was replying, but there is no option to reply to status comments. (Strange)

There is even a "Report" button on my profile page for me to report myself!
What is this Nazi Germany or something?

You better behave or I'll report you to the authorities!

 

[PGen98]

Unfortunately this is just how XF does profile posts by default. You can't quote someone's profile post text since you're limited to the number of characters in a profile post, so they don't give you a "reply" link, just the box underneath comments. I agree it's a bit of a flaw in their system, but it's how they designed it

 

[Ozzy47]

Yeah unfortunately it is just how the UI is designed. Not sure there is much that can be done to change it.

 

[PGen98]

Yeah unfortunately it is just how the UI is designed. Not sure there is much that can be done to change it.

I'm wondering about maybe changing the link colour for Report to red, so it stands out and can't be hit accidentally?

 

[safeinsanity]

Unfortunately this is just how XF does profile posts by default. You can't quote someone's profile post text since you're limited to the number of characters in a profile post, so they don't give you a "reply" link, just the box underneath comments. I agree it's a bit of a flaw in their system, but it's how they designed it

Yeah, too bad it wasn't designed like the TV and Movie database addon's comment section of the forum. That is very nice how you can quote and reply to comments just like in a standard forum post.

 

[PGen98]

Yeah, too bad it wasn't designed like the TV and Movie database addon's comment section of the forum. That is very nice how you can quote and reply to comments just like in a standard forum post.

Agreed, it would make sense to offer quoting and not restrict character counts, but I believe the initial intention behind profile posts was to eventually integrate them into Twitter somehow, or utilize them as a Twitter-esque communication system. I'll have to track down the quote from the developers themselves, but they initially wanted them to be very much in tune with Twitter, so no quoting (you can quote now, of course, because Tweets have grown in size) and only the old 140 character limit (think the character limit is higher than that now, but 140 was the default, just like Twitter).

 

[Deleted member 324]

I'm wondering about maybe changing the link colour for Report to red, so it stands out and can't be hit accidentally?

Can still be hit accidentally no matter the color. It's good like it is. Lesson learned for The Fonz.

 

[PGen98]

Can still be hit accidentally no matter the color. It's good like it is. Lesson learned for The Fonz.

That's a fair point, for sure.

 

[Deleted member 324]

That's a fair point, for sure.

The Fonz was always hitting wrong buttons on Happy Days.

 

[Ozzy47]

I’ve added a exclamation triangle icon before the Report text.

 

[safeinsanity]

I’ve added a exclamation triangle icon before the Report text.

Much better! The Fonz approves .. Aaaay!

 

[Ozzy47]

Glad you like it.

 

[PGen98]

Just please...don't jump the shark..

 

[safeinsanity]

Just please...don't jump the shark..