440438 - Need a way to request removal of an add-on review

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 434048

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect)

Description

[Christopher Finke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0
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Currently, there is no way to request a removal of an add-on review.  A great majority of the reviews for my add-ons should not have been approved in the first place, according to http://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Editors/ReviewingGuide#Moderating_Reviews  Additionally, add-on authors should be able to request re-moderation of old reviews that are no longer relevant due to later updates to the add-on.

For example, I have just gone through the reviews for Feed Sidebar and have come up with the following reviews that I believe should be removed (numbers are review IDs, as I couldn't find a permalink for each review):

Positive reviews with no substantiation:
40980
37987
36471
20085
14176

Bug reports:
40760 (Fixed)
35900 (Fixed)
35382

Feature requests
36628
35758
33704
33113 (Feature has since been implemented)
20663
19898
17730 (1 of 2 implemented since review was made)
3287 (Has since been implemented)

Improper negative reviews
29096 (A list of feature requests that would result in an entirely different add-on)

Obsolete reviews
11799 (A helpful negative review, but all points have since been addressed)

I understand that allowing this might mean that add-on authors might request re-moderation of all negative reviews; maybe start by having it limited to trusted or recommended add-ons in order to gauge developer usage.

Also, not sure if I'd call this a bug or an enhancement.  It is definitely a new feature, but its absence negatively affects the usefulness of the AMO site.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Look at an improperly written review.
2. Think, "This should be removed."

Actual Results:  
Can't do anything about it.

Expected Results:  
Click "Request editor moderation of this review." Review should go back into pending status until moderation takes place.

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

There is actually a way to do this already in the code; however, due to server load problems we had to revert to an older version of AMO temporarily. We are currently sorting this out and hope for you patience in the meantime.

For a preview of how review flagging currently looks like, please feel free to step by our test site: https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ . You should be able to log in with your regular credentials and then on any review page you can see the links to mark a comment for moderation. However, please note that any changes you make there will not have any effect on the real-world AMO data.

Comment 2

[Ingo Müller]

Thanks a lot for implementing the reply and report functions! The only thing is, that I didn't find them before I discovered this bug report. "See all reviews (n)" doesn't really promis these functions...

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup