Menu button not working and intrusive Report link after recent update
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Both issues started at the same time a few days ago after what was presumably an update. We are using the Satellite classic theme, and the menu button is completely unresponsive. Each user’s post has a very loud and intrusive Report link preceding their text.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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That theme is over 10 years old and the last update was back in 2015. It’s no longer be maintained or supported and has compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. The only solution is to switch to a recent theme.
Your menu button doesn’t work indeed, however I don’t see any report link as you can see in the screen shot.
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Hello,
The Report button shows up under each individual user’s comments:
Understand about the theme, but it’s a shame as it’s a nice, clean one. Are other, more recent, themes experiencing similar problems?
Thanks.
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I noticed the “Report” button, hollered for help, and the A.I. assistant told me that it was “a WordPress.com feature that allows readers to flag comments they find inappropriate, spammy, or abusive — it helps with community moderation. It’s shown to logged-in WordPress.com users viewing your posts, and reported comments get reviewed.”
I didn’t like this at all, and spoke with a “Happiness Engineer” who told me first that “(T)he report button under comments is a standard feature that now comes with Comment forms, this is so that all of our users can report any content they may find harmful or inappropriate. This doesn’t mean a comment will be deleted for being reported; it will only be flagged and go through our review process.”
I liked that even less, and after some discussion the story changed: “The Report button is part of a recent update to the Akismet spam-protection settings on your site. It’s not a change to how your blog is moderated and no one at WordPress will review or override your moderation decisions. If a comment gets reported through that button, it’s simply flagged to Akismet’s spam system; it doesn’t get removed or hidden from your site.”
Long story short: If this “Report” button appears in your comments, you can remove it in your Dashboard by going to Jetpack > Akismet Anti-Spam and unchecking “Allow visitors to report spam or inappropriate comments.”
I emailed a complaint to Akismet’s support crew and got an A.I. reply from “Happy Bot,” which was simply my complaint fed back to me as praise for catching them trying to pants me with this nonsense.
The bad news is that someone thought this was a good idea. The worse news is that Automattic, WP, and Akismet didn’t think it was good enough to tell us about.
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Thanks for your very entertaining update!
At least I’ve been able to turn the Report button off now.
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