Timeline for Should moderators be able to see who flags a comment?
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| Jun 25, 2011 at 19:17 | history | edited | Shog9Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2010 at 23:00 | comment | added | GEOCHET | I would approve of that. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 22:02 | comment | added | Shog9 | Hmm... Maybe you just need an "ignore" option in the flag report? Something that wouldn't clear the flag but would remove the comment from the report unless / until it was flagged again... Pretty sure someone requested that once for normal flags too. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 22:00 | comment | added | GEOCHET | @Bill: You don't need to clear them. Just leave them alone. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 22:00 | comment | added | GEOCHET | @Bill: But you don't get it. You shouldn't be paying much attention at all to those flags. I don't know how to make it any clearer for you. Our current moderation is far too hyper-attentive. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:57 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod | @Shog9: That's typically what we do. The extra bit of information could be useful, though. If I'm wasting my time clearing useless flags from one user, I could ask them to stop. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:55 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod | @Geoffrey: If we could see that all of the flags were from one hypersensitive person, we would know to ignore it. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:54 | comment | added | Shog9 | @Bill: My take would be, if one user is getting flagged repeatedly but only one or two flags per comment then just ignore it - flags are free; if the comments were really all that offensive then there would be more of them. Obviously if one user is collecting enough flags to actually delete many/most of his comments, then that'd be different... | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:52 | comment | added | GEOCHET | In essence you are allowing hypersensitive people to become mods just by flagging everything someone writes and then stepping in. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:52 | comment | added | GEOCHET | @Bill: It should not matter. Let the community police itself. If what was being flagged was so horrible, it would be taking care of itself. That is the idea of moderation after all. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:44 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod | @Geoffrey: I agree with what you're saying about the community policing itself, but we do have to step in some times. On point: currently, if one user flags everything you say, all the moderators can see is your name coming up repeatedly. That really makes you look like a problem. We can't tell if it's coming from different users or not because there's no name attached to the flag. Is that the way it should stay? | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:37 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod | @Shog9: Thanks for adding that to your post. I got here kind of late, looks like. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:36 | history | edited | Shog9 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:25 | comment | added | Shog9 | @Bill: I had expanded on this a bit in comments here, but they were deleted. I've edited my answer. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:23 | history | edited | Shog9 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:23 | comment | added | GEOCHET | @Bill: The purpose of the flags and close votes and other things were to allow the community to moderate itself. If something was that offensive, it would be removed by the community. There is no reason for a mod to be inspecting the comment flags unless there is an associated further complaint. Right now, entire comment threads are being removed (all the comments in this very question/answers for example) because someone apparently flagged some comments. It is ridiculous. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:20 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod | @Geoffrey: Flagging can be a double-edged sword. I can't speculate about Jeff's motives, but if someone were complaining to me about you, I would want them to flag the behavior they're talking about too. That way I could see for myself if you were really causing a problem or if they were being overly sensitive. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:13 | comment | added | GEOCHET | @Bill: But according to the emails I am getting, those people are being encouraged to needlessly flag comments. They do so in hopes of getting particular people banned from the site by creating enough noise around those people. Apparently it is a successful method as well, since Jeff is the one encouraging it. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 21:06 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod | I don't know if moderators just seeing the name would discourage people from flagging. Only if we saw a pattern of the same person repeatedly flagging posts that don't need to be flagged would we do anything with that information, and in that case we would only discourage that one person. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 18:58 | history | answered | Shog9 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |