Board Thread:Moderator News/@comment-26339491-20160823233607/@comment-26339491-20160915081645

Hey Jonnyvue,

1: Admins can add a new Discussions category on the web version of Discussions. I'm sure if they agree that an additional category is necessary, they'll make that change. Why not suggest it to them directly?

2: Admins and mods are already able to re-categorize posts!

3: We need "All" to actually mean "all categories", since we would confuse many users otherwise. Anyone not interested in off-topic posts can adjust their filter accordingly, and that preference will be saved, so they don't have to do it every time they visit Discussions.

4: We're already planning on making blocking by device possible, at least for Wikia staff. It'll still be a while until that feature is available, but once it is, I agree it will be very helpful in keeping away the worst repeat offenders.

5: As I mentioned above, the categories are set by the local admins, not by Wikia staff. They can rename them, as well as add and remove them.

6: We're not currently planning on giving Discussions something like Abuse Filter (an extension that wikis with a bad vandal problem can request and which can block certain words or phrases outside of Discussions). Different wikis may have different preferences on what kind of language they want to allow, and so this would have to be a highly customizable feature, making it hard to build and hard to maintain. If we find over time that there really is a serious problem with bad language, we might reconsider this, though.

Thanks for sharing all of your thoughts! If you haven't yet, and you're interested in learning more about Discussions, maybe you'll find Help:Discussions_FAQ interesting?