700060 - helpful/unhelpful votes by moderators should count for 100 votes

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozilla.org :: Questions, task)

Description

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Since sometimes the helpful/unhelpful votes system is misused to upvote an unhelpful rant instead of the comment that actually solves the issue, people in the moderator group should be able to skew the voting. Please add this as a pref to be changed in the admin.

Comment 1

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

How to tackle this?

Since it's a pref, we can't just create 100 votes--and we may well assume 1-vote-per-user/question some places. Adding a column to QuestionVotes is basically unacceptable database time (too many rows) without a migration to a new table (c.f. HelpfulVote). VoteMetadata could work but is slow. Figuring out if the QuestionVote.creator ∊ Moderators is slow.

Suggestions?

Comment 2

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Kadir, how often do you actually expect this to change? We don't have any site preferences like this in the admin, and I'd really rather not add additional infrastructure to support it if we can make it a setting in Python.

Comment 3

[Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] [:atruong]]

Is this bug still valid since we already have rate limiting in effect?

Comment 4

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

WONTFIXing since we are going to rethink the whole karma thing soon.