Extensions by Tar-Minyatur

Better than on the last attempt I made. Thanks for asking.

You mean logging all administrative actions as well. Mhm. I thought about that. It's possible...sure. The question is, whether this really is needed, because those things are touched very seldom and only trustworthy people (which also should know, what they're doing) should get administrative access anywhere. But I usually can be convinced to almost anything, so try it.

Well...that would make the whole thing quite useless, I think. It's meant to log actions, which might cause confusion or show a moderator's bad behaviour. If the entries are deleteable, this would not be possible anymore. Sure...only administrators can view the log, but also administrators can go wrong and should thus not be able to wipe out their tracks. At least that's my opinion (yeah...conflicts a little with what I wrote above, but also trustworthy people make errors...). And if you fear, that the database might get too large...I don't think that will happen, because the table used by the extension is quite slim.

Last edited by Tar-Minyatur (2008-08-02 12:06:50)

I don't really see a new argument here...why would anybody want to edit the log? The database will not be a problem, and too old entries are deleted anyway. So you'll have to bring something better to convince me. Concerning your other suggestion: I'll make a list of things that maybe should be logged, to get a view of what could be done. It's not a big deal to add other "log-points". Actually it's mostly stupid typing of language file entries, as well as searching for hooks. I'm only concerned, that at some time somebody might wish to have a filter for the log.

Giving moderators access to the log...mhm. I'd rather think about another Extension, that requires moderators and admins to justify their decisions by supplying a short explanation why a thread was closed, split, ... Because the only use I can see for a moderator to look into the log would be to contact a fellow moderator to ask why he did something. Of course you can tell your team it should always post, but I will not do that. At least that's my experience. And it's always better to have moderation actions being as transparent as possible. Adding "close this thread" to the options when answering to a thread, might be a good idea, too.

I must admit, that I currently don't know, which extensions already exist. It's getting a little difficult to keep them all in mind. I'd write those, if they aren't already in development.

http://fluxbb.org/wiki/community_extensions ?

I created one of the extensions we spoke about some days ago. It adds two checkboxes to the post creation form, if you've got moderation rights.

The next version of the mod action log is not ready yet, as I need the hooks I asked Smartys to add. When this one is done, I'll enable the new extension to get logged as well.

Great. I will try it.

I don't mean to tell you what you programmed or not but the extension on the description is this one http://tshw.de/fluxbb/staff_class_in_viewtopic_0.1.zip and not the one you have on the link

I just tested the extension and it does indeed show a icon for Admins and mods, but it hides the user's title. Even personalized titles.