The discussion highlights confusion regarding the reversal of user approval actions in the review queue. Steve_Walmsley reports that the “Yes” button now appears to mean “Don’t Approve,” which he finds counterintuitive and prone to causing errors, especially for administrators who rely on daily checks without reviewing recent changelogs. He emphasizes that having to remember that “No” means “Yes” for positive actions like accepting new users is problematic.
putty suggests this issue stems from a recent change where “Yes” in the review queue was repurposed to generally indicate that there is a problem with the item being reviewed. Putty speculates that while this global change was implemented, the specific context of user approvals may have been overlooked, leading to the confusing and potentially dangerous inversion of expected behavior.
Am I going insane or have the new user approvals reversed?
I am used to going through the list of new user approval each day and clicking Yes. Today I realised it had changed to Yes = Don’t Approve - which seems crazy. How is the negative option the default for approving something positive like Accept New User?
This is going to lead to a LOT of confusion, especially among people like me who just quietly administer forums and don’t check the World of Discourse every day.
When someone applies to join, I really don’t want to have to remember that No means Yes.
