[FEATURE] Highlights context

[unixporn]

[FEATURE] Highlights context

[buffet]

Personally really against this, as it takes away the ability for users to rely on the edit and delete functionality.

[elkowar]

I do think this would drastically improve the usefullness of highlights! however, I also see a rather relevant issue with it, I'm afraid:
this would automatically log a users messages outside of the server - a thing that the discord guidelines generally forbid, except if explicitly mentioned in the rules. We do log messages already (for the deleted/changed message log), but as of now, that has stayed a mod-internal thing.
Exposing that kind of logging to normal members needs to be carefully considered, and is something we should probably also at least get some more community feedback on.

I do however also think that if we don't include the author of the message that triggered it, this may be fine - knowing a message was sent without knowing by whom makes it a lot less problematic.

[manderio]

however, I also see a rather relevant issue with it, I'm afraid:
this would automatically log a users messages outside of the server - a thing that the discord guidelines generally forbid

https://discord.bots.gg/bots/292212176494657536
This is a commonly used discord bot, I can't find if it's verified or not, but I do know it is being used by other servers. I am unable to find whether discord has verified this bot or not. Could ask about it in the discord bot dev community server. So guidelines should be able to be resolved.

A compromise might be to only include the message it's being written in, so for example, instead of me getting
"Your highlighted word mander was mentioned in #channel"
you get
"Your highlighted word mander was mentioned in #channel with the following message: "Mander is a dumbass"

Then you would get a highlight letting you know that that's what the message your name was included in. That way you get at least a little bit of context without logging a lot of messages.

[buffet]

This is still kind of an issue if people highlight stuff like "the".

[manderio]

Fair point.

[6gk]

^ sounds really abusable imo - it can practically be a free 24/7 message logger if you add the right words.

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[manderio]

Yea, I mean, that's something I've noticed with the highlight bot in the other server I'm in, i have logs of messages for stuff and there is a lot in there that probably shouldn't be... Sure it would be highly convenient but you guys bring up great points.

[elkowar]

The only way i could see this maybe be viable is if we made it not log the username, and not log any context around the message, just the message itself. even then, unsure if it's a good idea, but that option should be discussed.