Zeronet: User "muting"

[wpstudio]

I'm wondering if there would be a method in which Zeronet would allow users to set up a self-moderating "user muting" list.

This would prevent any type of censorship but individuals could HIDE posts/content made by specific ZeroID individuals. And since the user muting list would remain on individual's localhost it would only mute for that specific user.

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

could be part of the "universal admin interface" https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet/issues/354

[HelloZeroNet]

@Erkan-Yilmaz The unviersal admin is for managing site database, the muting feature is only for you and it would not modify the site.

[HelloZeroNet]

It can be done two ways:

• Does not insert hidden user's data to database at all: Probably easier, no site modification needed, but you will not notice if you miss all content created by the user (topics, comments, mails, etc.)
• Let the sites handle it: Needs modification on every site, but you can see if anyone commented on a topic created by the user you hidden.

It's not that hard, but could be dangerous and narrow your view of the world

[TheNain38]

@HelloZeroNet I find the first idea better than the second, because it allows users to hide all the content that comes from a certain cert

[alxbob]

its better to let users decide what their want to see and don't want to see. It could be even better if they have the option not to seed what the don't want from a user but i think merger issue should solve this kind of stuff

[HelloZeroNet]

Started working on this:

• [x] muteAdd command: Adding new user to mute list, params: auth_address, cert_user_id, source, reason. Confirmation requred if not an admin site. Check all sites and removes the json files of the user from databases.
  
  
  
  • [x] Remove entries from database
  
  
  • [x] Skip updates
  
  
  • [x] Add confirmation dialog
  
  
• [x] muteRemove command: Remove user from mute list, params: auth_address. Confirmation requred if not an admin site. Check all sites and re-add the json files of the user from databases.
  
  
  
  • [x] Re-add entries from database
  
  
  • [x] Add confirmation dialog
  
  
• [x] muteList command. List all current mutes. Requres admin permission.
• [x] UI in ZeroHello to add/list/modify current muted users
• [x] Implement to ZeroHello
• [x] Notification for older clients

Questions:

• Does non-global, only one site muting desirable?

[Jookia]

Will this include optional files, such as images? Would be nice to mute people who show illegal content and have it wipe anything I'm sharing extra too. For instance, to view an option on ZeroMe you have to download it which I think also distributes it.

Sharing of mute lists would be good too.

[HelloZeroNet]

No, it's only hides the content, but you will still download and distribute it to other people, because the protocol expects that everyone has every non-optional file.

No mute lists yet, maybe in the future.

[HelloZeroNet]

added in 2cea157eccb2f0b3e19158590d2d3e65ba4022a5

[fiskr]

@HelloZeroNet I don't understand how to use the Mute plugin, as a user. It seems almost like you implemented it for admin of zites? I am not sure I understand, but essentially: how do I mute users now that 2cea157 is done?

Nervermind - I figured it out. From the TopicList view, you can use the three dots menu to mute a user. There isn't something similar from the TopicShow view.

[slrslr]

@HelloZeroNet It happen to me that user is posting bad content on some site and on other site he post useful content.
For example on ZeroMe i would mute user who is posting nudity or pedo content publicly, but i want to see his content on ZeroTalk and ZeroMail because i do not believe in blocking valuable user zeronet-wide, just because on one or two sites he post bad images..

Please make the site-wide muting by default and zeronet-wide as a last resort option?

[Thunder33345]

actually agreed on begin able to mute with fine tuned addresses, for the public list and mute list