Welcome to Codidact Meta!
Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.
Inconsistent use of "abilities" and "privileges"
The Your abilities page looks something like this (depending on your current abilities):
To a moderator looking to grant or suspend abilities, there is a mod-only page called "Privileges", which looks something like this:
Each of these pages uses "abilities" and "privileges" interchangeably. Should we use one word consistently?
If so, note that the URL for each of these pages is also inconsistent (one containing "abilities" and the other containing "privileges").
1 answer
I believe that this is actually intentional and not a bug, because these pages serve different purposes.
The /abilities page shows the abilities you can earn through your usage of the community. That's user-oriented, and part of the Abilities feature set.
The /priveleges page, though, is a bit different. It's not only used for abilities, but also granting other privileges. This is the view of a global admin:
These aren't abilities and are granted independently of that system, so combining those two pages would be a mistake, in my opinion.
0 comment threads