[Imc-uk-useability] Firefox admin sidebar idea, was: hiding

[yossarian]

Barney wrote:

>How difficult would it be to have a `report this story for hiding'
>link or button on each newswire story? Or do people think it would be
>abused to much to be useful?
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I have been thinking about how to make it easier for our admins to see
what's been published and mark articles as "checked" (i.e., viewed by an
admin), "hidden", or "promoted" (if/when we get a promoted newswire). 
In my view the trouble now is that the whole process involves way too
many steps, and it tends to be done by a very few wonderfully fanatic
people who manually check the site every few minutes.  After a while
they burn out, because sitting around pressing "refresh" that often
really sucks. 

If 5 articles have suddenly been published, our hapless newswire-warrior
needs to read through them all.  Meanwhile, somebody else may be doing
the same thing, duplicating the effort involved.

Then if something needs to be hidden, they have to log in to the admin
site, find that article, hide it, hit save, hit generate all new, and
then manually email the features list with an explanation of why they've
hidden the thing.

I am wondering if somebody couldn't build a Firefox Mir-Admin sidebar
that would pop up a notification panel whenever anything new was
published, allow a user to login to the site, and have a "hide" button
with an explanation field, and then we automate the rest of the
process?  Then if we had, like, 10 people running that sidebar, stuff
would get hidden super-fast, and we could maybe also implement a thing
saying "article checked" as well so people could see whether an article
had already been checked by someone else and not waste time looking at it. 

For anyone who doesn't understand what a Firefox sidebar is, if you do 
"View --> Sidebar --> History" in Firefox, that's the History sidebar. 
They're not extraordinarily tough to build, these things, apparently.