Am I the only person who often gets confused by the “Approve” and “Reject” buttons in the review queue? I do not get alot of flagged users and posts in my community, thank goodness, but that means that I am a bit unfamiliar with the flagging system and terminology as it was in the past and still today don’t have to interact with it very often. I also am a self-diagnosed slysdexic, for sure. As a result,when on that interface my mouse cursor or finger often hovers indecisively over the two buttons not being sure which one to choose.
I have to remember to tell myself the buttons mean:
Approve (keep flagged user or post)
Reject (delete user or post)
The buttons do NOT mean:
Approve (delete user or post)
Reject (keep user or post)
In case I am not alone in my confusion here, I’d suggest including text like the above on the button itself or at least in mouseover helper text. Perhaps there could even be a short para somewhere on the review queue page explaining how to use it, or a link to a guide here on meta that explains how moderators are expected to use the review queue.
I would put myself in the same group here. I don’t regularly interact with the flagging system, so it feels a little unfamiliar. It isn’t 100% clear what the buttons will do when you click them.
Once you click on the Agree or Delete buttons, you do get some more detailed descriptions of what will happen.
I guess I am looking mostly at flagged users. In this case you hit APPROVE or REJECT and the user is just instantly approved or deleted, apparently. There is no drop down, and I also wonder what’s actually happened.
I feel like the drop down on flags is fairly clear (although if anyone has a suggestion for making them more clear I would be interested in hearing what you have to say.)
For reviewing users, I’m wondering if it makes sense to change from:
Approve Reject
To:
Grant Access Delete User…
Where Delete User would pop up to say “Delete the User” and “Delete and block”
Thanks, Robin! Glad to know I am not going crazy on my own and that you think changing this is a good idea.
Your new labels look good to me and are much more clear. I am also looking forward to the popup to delete the user or delete and block.
One note - we still have “Approved” and “approved by…” in various places in the UX, like on the user admin settings. Maybe you want to make the connection clearer?
I just dealt with a flagged topic, and was confused again by what to select in this interface. There is no indication before clicking what will happen, and I was not sure what to select.
When I selected APPROVE (or was it AGREE? I forget) it showed a pulldown that seemed to indicate I was agreeing it is spam and should be hidden. I then selected the other one (DISAGREE?), and it took action right away without a pulldown. The post was no longer flagged and was active in the forum. As it turns out that is the action I wanted, and I then made it into a PM and discussed it with the poster.
I have to agree (no pun intended) with this topic. Agree/Disagree confuses me when I occasionally do a review. I just disagreed and am not really sure what happened. Now that post is under “rejected” and I don’t really know what that means either (in both cases, is the question about the post or the flagging itself? Disagree -> Rejected makes it sound like the post was removed).
To add to my confusion, I feel that I may have removed this post which I didn’t want to do, and I can find it under the “rejected” search. But I don’t see a way to revert my decision. Also it says post removed by author, so I don’t know if that was a result of my action or something they did independently. Maybe they actually did that after it was initially flagged, and that’s why I have no way to restore it. But if so why was I being asked to review it in the first place.
Trying to wade through this makes me feel like a dumb user, and although I know I could figure this out I also know this is usually a smell of user experience that needs a rethink. At least that’s how I approach the “dumb users” on my site.
+1 from me. The whole agree/reject// feels inconsistent to me and really forces me to carefully read both the flag reason and the action. As an extreme example, I’d much prefer a green and a red button for ‘keep this post’ and ‘nuke this post’. Regardless of the flagging reason, this would immediately tell me what will happen when I click a button.