Can we please stop forcing me to block people just because I report their behavior?
This is really driving me up the wall, that you think I need to be told whom I can and can't contact. Why am I the one being punished?
46-50, M
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WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M
I’ve reported people without having to block them. What happened?
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@WintaTheAngle It depends on the offense for which you're reporting and how many reports you make on a single individual. So, for instance, if someone is showing signs of being inclined to self-harm, the website won't make you block them if you report that. But if somebody is throwing around racial slurs and you report each instance as hate speech, you'll find you've got them blocked and can't unblock them for at least a month.
@Andrew is of the opinion that this is a good way to run a website, but I resent being treated like a child.
@Andrew is of the opinion that this is a good way to run a website, but I resent being treated like a child.
ExperienceDLT · M
@LordShadowfire i suppose they figure if you are reporting them that you would have no intention of contacting them anyways 🤷♀
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@ExperienceDLT Maybe, but that's an inaccurate assumption. Plus it makes it much more difficult to show a pattern over several posts.
WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M
@LordShadowfire Why would you want to show a pattern across posts? You already know what you need to know.
Just do what you would if was a offline encounter.
Just do what you would if was a offline encounter.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@WintaTheAngle It's not about what I want to know. It's what I'm trying to express.
If I were the owner of this website, and someone was consistently causing problems over the course of numerous posts, in both their own posts and others, I'd want to know that. And if this person was a serious enough problem, I'd want to remove them. This is in part because I watched the demise of Yahoo Answers, whose owners didn't take it that seriously and allowed people to come back with new accounts over and over and over.
But the problem is proving that someone is a consistent troublemaker. If I go in and find a ton of, for example, Naziesque references to "unaliving" all of a certain ethnic group, but it's spread out over 10 or 12 posts, and reporting what the person says on one single post creates a block, it's harder to show the admins why this person should simply be removed. As such, they see a single reference to it and think it's an isolated incident.
If I were the owner of this website, and someone was consistently causing problems over the course of numerous posts, in both their own posts and others, I'd want to know that. And if this person was a serious enough problem, I'd want to remove them. This is in part because I watched the demise of Yahoo Answers, whose owners didn't take it that seriously and allowed people to come back with new accounts over and over and over.
But the problem is proving that someone is a consistent troublemaker. If I go in and find a ton of, for example, Naziesque references to "unaliving" all of a certain ethnic group, but it's spread out over 10 or 12 posts, and reporting what the person says on one single post creates a block, it's harder to show the admins why this person should simply be removed. As such, they see a single reference to it and think it's an isolated incident.
WintaTheAngle · 41-45, M
I understand. I’ve seen encountered admins handing out punishment for insults used in the heat of the moment, while at the same time ignoring people making an argument for pedophilia.
The problem is it’s their site, their rules and there’s very little can be done about it. Should we walk away the site would still get sufficient footfall to keep going. Look at how many people walked away from the site during the pandemic because of the disgusting content about the deaths if people based on their politics and their vaccine choices. Nothing happened. Thie site just carried on.
The problem is it’s their site, their rules and there’s very little can be done about it. Should we walk away the site would still get sufficient footfall to keep going. Look at how many people walked away from the site during the pandemic because of the disgusting content about the deaths if people based on their politics and their vaccine choices. Nothing happened. Thie site just carried on.