The discussion revolves around adding a feature to Akismet that allows staff members to see who among them agreed with marking a post as spam. aschrijver requested this feature as an admin-only configuration option, citing the need for transparency among staff members. sam acknowledges the request and mentions a long-term plan to normalize “flags” and “queued posts” into a single review section, which would facilitate implementing the requested feature. Additionally, sam suggests logging staff actions when marking something as spam or not spam and asks eviltrout about the existence of auditing in Akismet.
I just saw a flag appear by Akismet about a spammer. It was a new user, just created, and indeed spam.
But Akismet in the overview told me that 2 other staff members had agreed it was spam too. However, I could not see who these staff members were, and when (after removing the new user) I looked at user activity no staff members other than System were recently active.
I would like to have the configuration option to see exactly who of the staff agreed on marking the post as spam. We are a small staff and have no secrets among us. Enabling the configuration option could be an admin-only available setting.
We have a long term todo here for normalizing “flags” / “akismet” and “queued posts” into 1 review section. At that point I think we can investigate giving you more fidelity here.
At the moment it is not easy at all to see a quick report of what actions staff took against the akismet queue. I think at a minimum we should log a staff action when marking something as spam / not spam. @eviltrout I know this was a long time ago but do you recall if any auditing was built into akismet short of custom fields?