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Ratioed: add help text

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Matthew Exon 2024-07-22 18:23:23 +02:00
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@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use Friendica\Content\Pager;
use Friendica\Core\Logger;
use Friendica\Core\Renderer;
use Friendica\Database\DBA;
use Friendica\DI;
use Friendica\Model\User;
use Friendica\Module\Moderation\Users\Active;
@ -18,6 +19,11 @@ class RatioedPanel extends Active
{
Active::content();
if (isset(DI::args()->getArgv()[1]) and DI::args()->getArgv()[1] === 'help') {
$template = Renderer::getMarkupTemplate('/help.tpl', 'addon/ratioed/');
return Renderer::replaceMacros($template, array('$config' => DI::baseUrl() . '/settings/addon'));
}
$action = $this->parameters['action'] ?? '';
$uid = $this->parameters['uid'] ?? 0;
@ -111,6 +117,7 @@ class RatioedPanel extends Active
return self::getTabsHTML('ratioed') . Renderer::replaceMacros($t, [
// strings //
'$title' => $this->t('Moderation'),
'$help_url' => $this->baseUrl . '/ratioed/help',
'$page' => $this->t('Behaviour'),
'$select_all' => $this->t('select all'),
'$delete' => $this->t('Delete'),

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<div class="panel 'help-content-wrapper">
<div class="panel-body">
<h2>Ratioed Plugin Help</h2>
<p>
This plugin provides administrators with additional statistics about
the behaviour of users. These may be useful as early warning signs
that warrant more carefully watching the behaviour of a user. They
are <em>not</em> suitable as a trigger for instantly blocking,
muting, or reporting a user, since they lack context.
</p>
<p>
The name of the plugin comes
from <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-ratio-and-what-does-it-mean-to-get-ratioed-twitters-1-rule-explained">"The
Ratio"</a>, a well-known quick rule of thumb:
</p>
<blockquote>
If the Replies:RT ratio is greater than 2:1, you done messed up.
</blockquote>
<p>
To "get ratioed" is to receive a large number of comments in a short
space of time, with relatively few likes or boosts. If commenters
were enthusiastic about the posts, they would also have liked or
boosted them. Receiving many comments without such likes or boosts
indicates the comments were probably angry. This anger may or may
not be justified, but either way this is probably something
moderators should be aware of.
</p>
<p>
This plugin allows viewing of an actual ratio, calculated over the
last 24 hours. This is a useful timeframe for sudden dogpiling
events that administrators might not otherwise notice. The plugin
also calculates other statistics.
</p>
<h3>Explanation of Statistics</h3>
<h4>Blocked by</h4>
<p>
This summarises the number of users on remote servers that have
blocked this user.
</p>
<p>
Note that the ActivityPub spec expressly says that
implementations "SHOULD NOT" forward such block messages to
remote servers. Nevertheless some implementations do this
anyway, notably Mastodon. This statistic can only count block
messages from servers that do this, as well as blocks from local
users. As such, it is usually an undercount.
</p>
<p>
The reason the spec recommends against forwarding these messages
is that they can lead to retaliation. For this reason, this
plugin deliberately does not provide any way to investigate
exactly who blocked the user.
</p>
<h4>Comments last 24h</h4>
<p>
This gives the number of comments made on the top-level posts that
this user made within the last 24 hours.
</p>
<h4>Reactions last 24h</h4>
<p>
This collects the number of likes, boosts, or other "one-click"
interactions made on the user's top-level posts within the last 24
hours.
</p>
<h4>Ratio last 24h</h4>
<p>
This is the ratio between "Comments last 24h" and "Reactions last
24h". It is intended to approximate the traditional ratio as
understood on Twitter.
</p>
<h3>Performance</h3>
<p>
The statistics are computed from scratch each time the page loads.
It's possible that this might put a heavy load on the database. and
the page may take a long time to load.
</p>
<h3>Extending</h3>
<p>
Suggestions for additional statistics are welcome, especially from
moderators. This plugin should be considered a sandbox for
experimentation, so it is not necessary to prove that any statistic
is correlated with unwanted behaviour.
</p>
<p>
However, this plugin does deal with potentially sensitive
information. Even if moderators do in principle have access to all
information, it should not necessarily be highlighted. Statistics
should be kept anonymous and neutral. Also, they should be
presented only to moderators, not to the users themselves.
</p>
</div>
</div>