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Notifier count can help to deter tropes from further violations and should be private for the troper only (and mods).
Wiki and forum count could be public, it can show if an edit has been active even if they've joined long time ago, though there was one argument back on Wikia that it could be encouraging "honor badge" behavior.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Mod view does have "last edit" date, "last post" date and "last login" date (which mods sometimes use for replies to Absent People thread queries).
Given that you can see last post and last edit for any troper via existing forum search and troper page edits link, I don't see any problem putting them here as well. Just not sure how much benefit that offers.
I am personally of the view that last login should not be visible to anyone - if someone's logged in and lurking, nobody else needs to know, and it's useless information for the troper themselves, because it'll always show them the current date.
In the upcoming update to Troper pages we will have wiki edits, forum, discussion, and TLP counts as well a "last edit" date, "last post" date and "last login" date.
But the moderators decided that the Wiki edit count should be private so users don't try to artificially boost their numbers with poor edits or use it as a way to bully others.
Adding notifiers is an interesting idea though, i may add that to the list before it goes live.
Edited by kory Now monitoring Wishlist and Bugs
Love this idea, though I just wanted to point out regarding ^ "...moderators decided that the Wiki edit count should be private so users don't try to artificially boost their numbers...", you can already tally that count fairly easily by looking at "My Edits" (or soandsos edits) and doing some quick math. I don't know that you're really hiding that much.
Ya I agree with you, I don’t think hiding the current exact number, when it can be tallied in a second by multiplying results per page and number of pages already, is doing much. But I’m not sure if the mods are open to more discussion about it though.
Edited by kory Now monitoring Wishlist and Bugs
Mrph 1 above said it doesn't sound like a problem, so it may worth bringing up, but I'm not going to insist on matters that are not in public.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Well i don't believe all the moderators had a vote or anything official, it was just a few of them saying we should probably hide it. Could probably bring it up in the Wiki Policy Thread
to also see what the other users think about it and have more of a discussion on it.
Moderators can see how many edits, forum posts and notifiers a particular user has.
This isn't visible to the user themselves, though - with notifiers, that can lead to situations where someone's had 10+ notifiers for wiki issues spread out over a year or more, but they're scattered in their inbox and they don't fully realise that this is becoming a recurring problem.
If we can do so securely, can we give tropers visibility of the same high-level breakdown by category that moderators see?
This may help to highlight problems before we end up with suspensions and appeals.
(Some information has been edited out of the example screenshot, as tropers don't need to see the other aspects)
Edited by Mrph1