93 lines
3.8 KiB
Smarty
93 lines
3.8 KiB
Smarty
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<div class="panel 'help-content-wrapper">
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<div class="panel-body">
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<h2>Ratioed Plugin Help</h2>
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<p>
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This plugin provides administrators with additional statistics about
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the behaviour of users. These may be useful as early warning signs
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that warrant more carefully watching the behaviour of a user. They
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are <em>not</em> suitable as a trigger for instantly blocking,
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muting, or reporting a user, since they lack context.
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</p>
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<p>
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The name of the plugin comes
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from <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-ratio-and-what-does-it-mean-to-get-ratioed-twitters-1-rule-explained">"The
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Ratio"</a>, a well-known quick rule of thumb:
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</p>
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<blockquote>
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If the Replies:RT ratio is greater than 2:1, you done messed up.
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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To "get ratioed" is to receive a large number of comments in a short
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space of time, with relatively few likes or boosts. If commenters
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were enthusiastic about the posts, they would also have liked or
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boosted them. Receiving many comments without such likes or boosts
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indicates the comments were probably angry. This anger may or may
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not be justified, but either way this is probably something
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moderators should be aware of.
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</p>
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<p>
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This plugin allows viewing of an actual ratio, calculated over the
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last 24 hours. This is a useful timeframe for sudden dogpiling
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events that administrators might not otherwise notice. The plugin
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also calculates other statistics.
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</p>
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<h3>Explanation of Statistics</h3>
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<h4>Blocked by</h4>
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<p>
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This summarises the number of users on remote servers that have
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blocked this user.
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</p>
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<p>
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Note that the ActivityPub spec expressly says that
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implementations "SHOULD NOT" forward such block messages to
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remote servers. Nevertheless some implementations do this
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anyway, notably Mastodon. This statistic can only count block
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messages from servers that do this, as well as blocks from local
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users. As such, it is usually an undercount.
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</p>
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<p>
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The reason the spec recommends against forwarding these messages
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is that they can lead to retaliation. For this reason, this
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plugin deliberately does not provide any way to investigate
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exactly who blocked the user.
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</p>
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<h4>Comments last 24h</h4>
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<p>
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This gives the number of comments made on the top-level posts that
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this user made within the last 24 hours.
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</p>
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<h4>Reactions last 24h</h4>
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<p>
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This collects the number of likes, boosts, or other "one-click"
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interactions made on the user's top-level posts within the last 24
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hours.
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</p>
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<h4>Ratio last 24h</h4>
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<p>
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This is the ratio between "Comments last 24h" and "Reactions last
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24h". It is intended to approximate the traditional ratio as
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understood on Twitter.
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</p>
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<h3>Performance</h3>
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<p>
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The statistics are computed from scratch each time the page loads.
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It's possible that this might put a heavy load on the database. and
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the page may take a long time to load.
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</p>
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<h3>Extending</h3>
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<p>
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Suggestions for additional statistics are welcome, especially from
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moderators. This plugin should be considered a sandbox for
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experimentation, so it is not necessary to prove that any statistic
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is correlated with unwanted behaviour.
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</p>
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<p>
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However, this plugin does deal with potentially sensitive
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information. Even if moderators do in principle have access to all
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information, it should not necessarily be highlighted. Statistics
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should be kept anonymous and neutral. Also, they should be
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presented only to moderators, not to the users themselves.
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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