Remove user-visible moderation log

[zorbathut]

We'll probably put some of it back at some point, but right now it's just "get rid of it".

[zorbathut]

Some extra notes:

I vaguely remember that Tildes has a central place where moderation actions are displayed, so that users can audit mod actions. For a variety of reasons we don't want this unless there's some way to filter them.

I also vaguely remember that I might be wrong about this, and it might be some other site that has this issue.

So this bug is "figure out if Tildes has a public moderation log, then if so, disable it". I'd recommend starting by looking for a place in the database where moderation actions are logged, then it should be easy enough to see if they're displayed anywhere.

[wbruntra]

I haven't been able to find a centralized place where users can view a log of moderation actions. Since that's not very helpful, here are notes on a few things I have found.

• Log, LogTopic, and LogComment (in models/log/log.py) are models used for logging actions.
• LogEventType (in enums.py) is an enum describing the types of loggable events. Nothing jumps out as obviously related to moderator-specific actions, e.g. banning a user.
• When comments are removed, in views/api/web/comment.py, a LogComment entry is created while executing the route (the function is put_comment_remove).
• In contrast, on the route where a user in banned, in views/api/web/user.py, no log action is created, so I wonder: are these actions logged?
• The only instance I am able to find in which logs are queried at all is in views/topic.py, line 458: request.query(LogTopic). This is called when rendering the main page for a topic, and shows events such as TOPIC_LOCK. Removing this query seems straightforward.
• I don't see any queries for other types of logs, i.e. Log or LogComment, which queries I believe would be necessary for logs to be user-viewable.

Not being completely familiar with this codebase, I can't totally rule out that moderator actions are logged/viewable in some other way I'm not seeing, but, well... I'm not seeing it.

Is an example of moderation logs available on https://tildes.net/ ?

[zorbathut]

Well, that looks pretty legit to me.

Is an example of moderation logs available on https://tildes.net/ ?

I went to look and couldn't find one, but I also don't have a working login and I was thinking it was hidden behind a login gate. In retrospect, I'm pretty sure this was just some other site that I was thinking of, and I got them confused, so this was entirely my fault.

The irony is that now I think we actually need some kind of moderator log, just because it's useful for figuring things out internally, but I've made a new task for that: https://github.com/themotte/tildes/issues/45

[wbruntra]

The irony is that now I think we actually need some kind of moderator log, just because it's useful for figuring things out internally, but I've made a new task for that: #45

:laughing: I came to the same conclusion! Cool