Timeline for Should I flag again when the system automatically handles the rude/abusive flag?
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| Jun 2, 2021 at 6:52 | vote | accept | Peter Duniho | ||
| Jun 1, 2021 at 17:09 | comment | added | Peter Duniho | @animuson: "Consider whether the missing penalties will achieve anything" -- as I've noted, the rep loss penalty obviously has no effect. But the IP-blocking could. As has been explained by comments and answers to my previous question, while trolls can bypass restrictions, making them do so is relatively easy compared to the cost they incur to do so, and so can make the moment come earlier when they finally get too bored to continue. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 13:45 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | Consider whether the missing penalties will achieve anything. Some trolls are persistent enough that they use proxies and VPNs to change their IP and they are new accounts with no reputation. If they've just been bypassing IP blocks anyways, it doesn't particularly matter which method is used to get rid of the content. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 7:49 | answer | added | TinkeringbellMod | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 7:48 | comment | added | Peter Duniho | @Luuklag: I'm aware of the "trolls get bored" aspect, thanks though. This isn't about that. As noted in the related question, one of the mechanisms by which trolls get bored more quickly is to have a higher barrier of entry. IP-blocking is such a barrier, so even if we are already being effective in other ways, there is reason still to include that higher barrier as well. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 7:48 | comment | added | Luuklag | @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog, they ask if they should re-flag after their R/A flag was helpful, so in that case the post is deleted, most likely as R/A. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 7:47 | comment | added | Luuklag | When trolls get 0 attention they will get bored. It takes some time, but they will leave eventually. Just keep piling on R/A flags, that's the best way to quickly delete their posts and make them lose interest. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 7:46 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | As you can only cast a single red flag on a given post, a better way to ask your question would be, "should I custom flag such posts asking that the normal deletion be changed to a spam/abuse deletion?". | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 7:26 | history | asked | Peter Duniho | CC BY-SA 4.0 |