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I Want to Improve the Experience Project

EP Needs To Make Immunization Of Restored Content Finally Work

Just days ago SammiSakura complained here about a story of hers that was flagged off the site, appealed successfully, and then flagged off the site yet again. <a href="http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Want-To-Improve-The-Experience-Project/5097267" target="ep_blank">EP Link</a>

We have been promised that content that has been restored on appeal will be immunized against further robo-deletions by malicious members, but I have yet to see any evidence that this has happened.

I have previously written stories in this group on this topic at <a href="http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Want-To-Improve-The-Experience-Project/4346332" target="ep_blank">EP Link</a> and at <a href="http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Want-To-Improve-The-Experience-Project/4598636." target="ep_blank">EP Link</a> I have a story that has twice been robo-deleted, appealed, and then restored on appeal. It was robo-deleted by my malicious enemy (who is one of the commenters on the story) a third time on July 16. I of course appealed it immediately, but I also asked on July 25 at the second of my stories linked here that EP bypass the appeals process and restore the story immediately in view of its having been cleared twice. EPArsineh assured me that she had put the EP engineering team on the matter.

Months have passed, and I have found plenty else to be busy with. I have never heard back from EP about the matter, either in my email box or my personal messages at my EP profile. I have thoroughly checked both to make sure. I note that this is happening to one of EP's paying members.

I request that the story be restored immediately on the basis of its already having been cleared on appeal twice, a fact which I can readily document if it is needed.

At <a href="http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Want-To-Improve-The-Experience-Project/5085616" target="ep_blank">EP Link</a>, one of EP's teen members plaintively asked : "Why does my content keep getting removed? Even the ones about depression....." She also is suffering from robo-deletion of non-violating content by malicious flaggers, and has also suffered repeat robo-deletion of the same story. The ability of members to delete other members' content at will with no prior review by EP staff has brought immense needless and undeserved pain to rules-abiding EP members. Ending this ability is the right thing to do.
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dragonexpert
Perhaps a story should only be auto-removed if it has received x amount of flags by different members. This would make it less likely to be abused.

There also should be some kind of punishment for false flagging if it clearly doesn't violate the Community Guidelines. Possibly including the loss of ability to flag content.

@Enigmatrix: It isn't hard to have it not be removed again. I have extensive knowledge on PHP and SQL which is what this site uses. There are plenty of ways including querying the reported_content table or even as simple as adding a column to the stories table. If it was up to me, I'd query the reported_content table since not as much database space will be used in the long run.
Enigmatrix
@dragonexpert: Maybe EP should give you a job, as they seem incapable of sorting this out on their own.
dragonexpert
It'd depend on how much time I'd have to dedicate to here. I currently work 40 hours of week at my normal job and then also work for MyBB.
Enigmatrix
@dragonexpert: I think I may know what EP might be doing wrong. Perhaps they're using PCP instead. };-)
Whatever x amount of flags would be set for auto-removal, what I called robo-deletion, could be attained by a malicious member, perhaps with the help of friends, creating as many duplicate accounts as are needed to delete other members' content. That is what is happening now. The bad people on EP have figured out how to do that.
stargirl58
I really think some of the biggest users should run the site, not the people who currently run it. in theory it would be better and people would actually be properly listened to. but we only came here to join a site, not run it.