Is Something Being Done About the False Flaggers of These Forums?

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

Since I seem to have a much better understanding of the CoC than OP, I doubt it.

[Yesuna-wyrmrest-accord]

@Nillah-uldaman

And then presumably it happened again elsewhere which is what led you here.

I’m not really sure that it matters as to what led him here, there’s a clear cut issue that has been here since the implementation of this new forum. This isn’t a random complaint, this has been a widespread issue for many posters.

[Bozho-frostmourne]

@Briselody-lightnings-blade

Since I seem to have a much better understanding of the CoC than OP, I doubt it.

Forgive me but didn’t you imply that OP could be reported?

[Tewa-hyjal (Tewa)]

@Bozho-frostmourne

I’m not aware of that particular thread but posters knee jerk reactions to any thread made on Asmongold, is another problem this forum has and is quite relevant to OP.

I report any thread that opens up with a link to a streamer video as spam, because it’s advertising. And I know I’m not the only one.

If people want to talk about an issue, they should talk about it. But spamming this forum to drive up streamer views is definitely getting flagged by me.

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

His original example was of him posting song lyrics in a thread, which would fall under extraneous posts for trolling. So, yes.

I’m not saying that I did report him, or that I would. But reporting something like that would fall under the correct use of a flag, and suggesting that someone be punished for it and calling it a “false flag” (which is starting to feel like a random buzzword at this point) is disingenuous.

[Ifelixl-quelthalas (Ifelixl)]

Seriously, it’s a misuse of community toxicity, if Blizzard continues like this it’s going to have to give names to whoever flagged you.

[Nillah-uldaman (Nillah)]

@Yesuna-wyrmrest-accord

I’m not really sure that it matters as to what led him here,

He’s claiming it’s not because people were flagging him. He’s been proven wrong.

Anyway this thread has been made many times and the mods still aren’t doing anything about the issue, so. They either don’t care or they don’t have the time to go around punishing everyone that abuses flagging, presumably because there’s a lot of them. And I found out the other day that it now only takes 3 flags to hide a post where it used to be 10, so they made that easier for some reason.

[Ayrias-nazjatar]

I rarely flag posts but boy to I use that Mute thread function alot.

[Yesuna-wyrmrest-accord]

@Ifelixl-quelthalas

if Blizzard continues like this it’s going to have to give names to whoever flagged you.

This would work wonders too. Personal responsibility would probably be better than punishment, tbh. People hate personal responsibility.

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

@Nillah-uldaman

And I found out the other day that it now only takes 3 flags to hide a post where it used to be 10, so they made that easier for some reason.

It’s also worth mentioning that “hiding” a post is the only thing that the community can do - any other action requires a moderator to look into the situation. And “hiding” a post honestly does more to emphasize it than anything else… everyone is going to click on it, obviously, to see what the controversy is.

[Nillah-uldaman (Nillah)]

Except they can and already do just log into alts to flag people, so nobody will know who their main poster is.

[Bozho-frostmourne]

@Briselody-lightnings-blade

I’m not saying that I did report him, or that I would. But reporting something like that would fall under the correct use of a flag, and suggesting that someone be punished for it and calling it a “false flag” (which is starting to feel like a random buzzword at this point) is disingenuous.

Fair, I didn’t see the previous edit.

[Blingshoot-zuljin]

I think you hit the nail exactly on the head, OP.

The false flaggers should be cancelled. I tried making a post of my own about this, but it was 404’d.

[Korette-feathermoon]

Blizzard likes people doing their work for them, i.e. flagging posts, they aren’t going to do something that stops that from happening.

[Nillah-uldaman (Nillah)]

Yeah they pretty much guaranteed this system is here to stay after they laid off a bunch of CMs and mods.

[Alael-madoran (Alael)]

@Rhaumiel-proudmoore

I have noticed that many players on these forums will report any opposing view to their own, and false flag another players opinion to have them silenced on these forums. This is similar to how players are falsely reporting players in game to have them silenced as well. Is there any repercussions to falsely reporting another player?

Blizzard posted this a while back on flagging abuse and how they handle it:

Mass flagging abuse

When a single post or individual receives a lot of reports, it goes to our Moderation team for review while hiding the post once a certain threshold is reached. While the intent here is to hide stuff that the community feels is against the Code of Conduct, you are correct in that some individuals try to weaponize the reporting system. We can and do take action against people who abuse our reporting systems, but I wanted to go into a bit more depth on how we do it and how we hope to improve. Cur…

[Yesuna-wyrmrest-accord]

@Nillah-uldaman

Except they can and already do just log into alts to flag people, so nobody will know who their main poster is.

Which solidifies the need for punishment for abuse of the system.

[Thecheat-turalyon (Thecheat)]

It should be pretty easy when a mod restores a flagged post to track all users who originally flagged it and give them some kind of strike. 3 strikes and flagging is disabled for x days. Tier the punishment or something for repeat outs.

[Nillah-uldaman (Nillah)]

I think we just need to go back to posting per account, and not per character. Leaves too much room for trolling and other offenses.

[Yesuna-wyrmrest-accord]

@Nillah-uldaman

I think we just need to go back to posting per account, and not per character.

I’d agree with this but it won’t happen as long as Blizzard uses discourse forum software.