Self Moderation

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no 🙋

At most, I would like to see normal users be able to vote to recategorize discussion threads from General category into other new categories that may be more relevant.

Users were given the ability to do this when categories were added long ago for the very first time, where there was some mini game on the site for recategorizing posts from Uncategorized to an appropriate category.

no.

EDIT: What is your idea to fix these problems. Writing "no" doesn't cut it. Site has a serious problems that needs fixing. I am offering ideas.

It doesn't help when you haven't clearly stated the problem - Is it what you perceive to be the "burden on the support staff"?

It appears there's been many suggestions over the years on decreasing the amount of tickets through things like automated rerolls or automated deletion requests under other specific circumstances. I support such things, but I get the impression that those circumstances are either too limited for automation to avoid enough false positives or the effort to implement the automation hasn't been worth it before or right now, otherwise it would've happened. So I don't know that its worth it to spend much time on a perceived problem that we have limited information about as non-support users. If it is a serious problem, then I would support a jury-based support queue for simple stuff like reroll requests, GA deletion, and change giveaway game.

Maybe making the guidelines more clear like the newer revisions will pave the way for more easily implementing ideas like what I've listed?

Or maybe the current load isn't actually a serious problem for support if support isn't saying anything about it, and maybe they bring on more support & mod people when they actually need it rather than when we regular members perceive they need it. I don't know, but I'm not going to make bold assumptions either, especially when we don't have any stats on how many tickets they actually process - We only know how many tickets are created or what's still open per category.

no

this would definitely reduce the burden on the support staff.

Sadly, no, it would not. Support would have to approve people for this kind of self-moderation (because any automatic system can't check that the person is sane". And then, support would have to deal with appeals from people, who will be moderated this way, if they consider they were rerolled/posts removed/etc incorrecyly.

You already have a blacklist, use it if you want.

self moderation will be abused.

Automation is something I see possible for moderation. for example ticket is automatically solved if the winner add the text

I agree to reroll
I agree to delete this giveaway

only thing what would help support is an automated reroll when winner rejects the giveaway.

I like the idea of winners being able to reject a win and trigger an automatic reroll/delete, maybe with a warning about how "this cannot be undone" and only if the key has not been revealed by the winner

That would not work and be easily abused, as written by many above.

We could use some other "upgrades" like connect creator's making re-roll / deletion ticket to winner's option to click "ok" "nah".

If I'd see straight away someone agrees on re-roll (or requested it and await creator's ticket) it would save a lot of time needed to dig through comments, confirm permission given via steam chat, browse old tickets etc. But I would not like it to be fully automated, as now I can spot some extra problems that can be connected to the giveaway. Like incorrectly chosen regional restrictions.

If self moderation worked, we would have no need for moderation at all.

Only automation I'd like to see would be an an option for an autoroll if the winner is banned already, or if the winner checks some box to decline a win. Even then, I doubt it's such a huge issue that we need to automate

When it come to keys and rerolling, self-moderation is going to get abused and used in the wrong way whether you are level 0-10. I would always let the moderators make the final decision on rerolling. By all means make the system more automated, like clicking on a box next to where the key is on the giveaway won page to request a reroll by the giveaway winner, but ultimately a moderator/support staff have the final say in the matter.

If people blacklist for bad ratios etc., imagine what people would do to someone winning a giveaway they did not want to win.

If there is no one independent on the reroll decision, people will argue who was right or wrong or I clicked the wrong box or I didn't understand what you meant etc. In total, there are currently 43 tickets open for rerolls so its not really a major issue/burden for the support staff currently compared to the 840 or so tickets for unsuspend requests. https://www.steamgifts.com/stats/community/support for the stats if you are interested.