Mark as spam control is obtrusive

Bug #782253 reported by j.c.sackett
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Launchpad itself
Triaged
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Bug Description

The new Mark as spam control is a pretty big part of the interface for something not used too often. Something less obtrusive would be nice.

Suggestions have included a small icon by the comment number that immediately hides the comment, or one that brings up an AJAX picker similar to the "affect-also" controls.

Tags: comments ui
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

If you must repeat yourself in a UI, do it unobtrusively. Things that help:

- Brevity. In Ubuntu Software Center reviews we use a single word with a question mark -- "Inappropriate?" -- and we don't put an icon next to it. (Using an edit icon for marking spam makes no sense anyway.) Some Web sites go the opposite route, using just a flag icon with no text (see for example the Disqus theme currently used by OMG Ubuntu).

- Dimness. In USC we make the link light grey, and this is fairly common in other forums.

- Compactness. Put the link on the same row as other metadata. Launchpad bug comments are awfully laid out generally (a hangover from the Plone era that I never got around to fixing), but at the very least the link could be on the same row as the commenter and date.

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

Making the link light grey contradicts the rule that links that change the page content are green. I favour only showing the link when my pointer of over the comment, or when something in the comment has focus.

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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

+1 re moving to the bar with the other metadata.

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j.c.sackett (jcsackett) wrote :

I'm not sure about text like "Inappropriate?" That doesn't tell me I'm about to take real action, as opposed to just flagging something for someone to look at.

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 782253] Re: Mark as spam control is obtrusive

Since this is an admin-only interface I think just having an icon
(with title/tooltip text) would be totally sufficient, perhaps just
the "x" icon. Separately we can add a "flag for review" that users
can push.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Yes, the "Inappropriate?" link in USC is for non-admins to flag a comment for review. Admins have a separate aggregated review interface.

j.c.sackett (jcsackett)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → j.c.sackett (jcsackett)
status: In Progress → Triaged
assignee: j.c.sackett (jcsackett) → nobody
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: comments
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