I believe it was Eliezer who (perhaps somewhere in the Sequences) enjoined us to consider a problem for at least five minutes, by the clock, before judging it to be unsolvable—and I have found that this applies in full measure in UX design.
Consider the following potential solutions (understanding them to be the products of a brainstorm only, not a full and rigorous design cycle):
A button (or other UI element, etc.) on every post, along the lines of “view history of moderation actions which apply to this post”.
A flag, attached to posts where moderation has occurred; which, when clicked, would take you to the central moderation log (or the user-specific one), and highlight all entries that apply to the referring post.
The same as #2, but with the flag coming in two “flavors”—one for “the OP has taken moderation actions”, and one for “the LW2 admin team has taken moderation actions”.
This is what I was able to come up with in five minutes of considering the problem. These solutions both seem to me to be quite unobtrusive, and yet at the same time, “transparent and easy to access”, as per your criteria. I also do not see any fundamental design or implementation difficulties that attach to them.
No doubt other approaches are possible; but at the very least, the problem seems eminently solvable, with a bit of effort.
I believe it was Eliezer who (perhaps somewhere in the Sequences) enjoined us to consider a problem for at least five minutes, by the clock, before judging it to be unsolvable—and I have found that this applies in full measure in UX design.
Consider the following potential solutions (understanding them to be the products of a brainstorm only, not a full and rigorous design cycle):
A button (or other UI element, etc.) on every post, along the lines of “view history of moderation actions which apply to this post”.
A flag, attached to posts where moderation has occurred; which, when clicked, would take you to the central moderation log (or the user-specific one), and highlight all entries that apply to the referring post.
The same as #2, but with the flag coming in two “flavors”—one for “the OP has taken moderation actions”, and one for “the LW2 admin team has taken moderation actions”.
This is what I was able to come up with in five minutes of considering the problem. These solutions both seem to me to be quite unobtrusive, and yet at the same time, “transparent and easy to access”, as per your criteria. I also do not see any fundamental design or implementation difficulties that attach to them.
No doubt other approaches are possible; but at the very least, the problem seems eminently solvable, with a bit of effort.