Timeline for Please give us an easy way to flag inappropriate ads
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| Oct 28, 2020 at 18:29 | comment | added | Ollie | @Jenayah It was released network-wide a while ago. Not status-completed yet, but see my answer. | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 18:26 | answer | added | Ollie | timeline score: 6 | |
| S Sep 23, 2020 at 15:08 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
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| S Sep 15, 2020 at 13:32 | history | bounty started | 202324 | ||
| S Sep 15, 2020 at 13:32 | history | notice added | 202324 | Draw attention | |
| Mar 24, 2020 at 22:34 | comment | added | Jenayah | Status in progress, I guess - see the new "report ad" feature, currently in testing | |
| Nov 21, 2019 at 19:15 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
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| Oct 27, 2019 at 12:56 | comment | added | Luuklag | @JuanM, any update on this? | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 22:51 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @dark I haven't heard any news. Several bad ads are also recorded on the original announcement on Workplace, so we might need to consolidate. | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 21:48 | comment | added | DarkCygnus | I see that there is an initiative at Workplace Meta on gathering the 'bad' ads under a Meta Post. Although this serves as a a way of gathering the ads, I wonder if there is already a consensus or news on this post? | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 14:35 | comment | added | Luuklag | Is there any news on this subject? For lack of a better approach I reported an ad by means of an answer to the original announcement, and as a separate question. The last I did today, the first about a week ago, still little to no action was taken it appears. | |
| Jun 29, 2019 at 12:50 | comment | added | LinkBerest - SO sold our work | MonicaCellio yet no answer on the feature request (no note on whether they are even considering it in @JuanM comment even). So no hope here anymore | |
| Jun 20, 2019 at 2:00 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @JuanM, I'm very glad to hear that! See Shadow? My hope wasn't misplaced. | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 23:40 | comment | added | Juan M Staff | @MonicaCellio That's exactly what's happening here - networks that are violating our guidelines are being removed. Those that were serving those scam adverts are no longer in the rotation. | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 15:14 | comment | added | ꓢPArcheon | @ChristianRau Yep, that's a way to read this situation, and sadly one that matches the "warn you when you rep goes up, say nothing and hope you won't notice when it goes down" SE culture. Problem is... there are already 3 different post on the main Meta site discussing various aspect of the issue, so it is not like it is a secret anymore. At this point even you were right with your assumption (and I want to think you weren't).... there is no "ruckus" to prevent since the info is already out. If anything, an official statement would only help to put the fires down. | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 15:08 | comment | added | Christian Rau | @SPArchaeologist Because then they would cause a massive meta ruckus about SE fully "going evil" in the ad department. Not that this wouldn't be justified, but it's understandable why they'd try to keep this as low-profile as possible, seeing how it's basically an overhaul of their entire ad philosophy. | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 14:48 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @MonicaCellio I wish this will be true, but at this point I just don't have faith in this anymore. Thanks. | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 14:33 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @ShadowTheCurlyBracedWizard in an ideal world, if a particular ad broker is generating a lot of complaints, SE would stop doing business with that ad broker. That's what a responsible company mindful of the experience it provides for its users would do. If all the ad brokers are scum that won't help, but if the malicious ads are coming mostly from a few sources, maybe we can do something about that. Actions should have consequences -- post a bad answer here and you lose rep and might get blocked; post a bad ad on our site and you lose credibility and might get blocked. It's the SE model! | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 9:07 | comment | added | ꓢPArcheon | I agree with basically everything Monica said in this post. Nevertheless, I would also like to point out that considering we are speaking about a 6 month long test... maybe warning the participants would be a great idea. So far it seems that most of the info is posted just on a question on The Workplace meta site... I don't understand why the test is being handled this way - it would make much more sense to post that on the main Meta. | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 8:00 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Back to the point: I'm not upvoting this request because it's pointless in my opinion. So let's assume we can flag ads. So what? So other evil ad will pop up, even in the very slim case the flags will have actual effect on the ad being flagged. | |
| Jun 19, 2019 at 7:55 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @Carcigenicate for me it was just pure scam ads, which are even worse. Sites selling clothes are at least legit. Sites selling magic pill that will teach you a new language are not legit, evil, and should be nuked, not be made legit on SE. It was a turn point for me regarding how I see Stack Exchange, to be honest. When it comes to ads, they're as bad as any other site on the internet, and worse since they lied about it. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 21:43 | comment | added | Carcigenicate | Whenever I visit a non-SO network site, all I get are ads for bras. Not only entirely non-applicable to me, but also very awkward. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 20:25 | comment | added | Richard | I turned my adblock off for a few minutes and all of the ads I saw were garbage. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 20:04 | comment | added | Juan M Staff | I'm checking on this. I'll update when I hear more! | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 20:01 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | This used to exist back when Adzerk was the ad provider: there would be "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" buttons. Unfortunately, that was lost when SE moved to Google DFP. | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 19:49 | history | asked | Monica CellioMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |