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Suggestion: Create a tag curation role similar to admin (piefed.zip)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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I like posts to be properly tagged, but sometimes I don't have the time. An idea would be to have an auto-assigned role so that 20% of users who spend the most time in a community gain the ability to curate post tags, improving discovery of old posts.

To further incentivize tagging, consider adding a leaderboard that tracks and rewards users for their tag curation efforts—highlighting top contributors each day, week, month and year.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You could just make a "trusted users" role for comms for this

No leaderboards

[–] 1.ceramics926@kopitalk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What's the procedure for this trusted users role?

[–] wjs018@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just to be clear, I think Skavau is proposing an idea, not talking about a feature that currently exists within PIeFed.

Overall, more fine-grained roles and permissions are a recurring topic that has come up in discussions. That is both among the developers and with other instance admins. I think being able to make some users be able to take some actions like clean up/assign flair or edit wiki pages without being given all the moderator powers would be a big improvement.

The really hard part of this comes when you introduce federation. You both need to give a user the ability to do the thing and also allow other instances to recognize that they have the permission to do that thing, or else their actions will not federate.

[–] 1.ceramics926@kopitalk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing. I think this is an exciting idea.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

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