I feel like false flaggers get punished in another fashion. I have noticed when my emotions get ahold of me and I flag people for something that is only minorly offensive. I tend to get suspended for something I myself post which could be seen as offensive.
That is to say, If you are someone that reports a lot. You best not be in a glass house else you will end up having your own vacation. I can’t confirm this as the case but it does feel like they scrutinize you a little bit more when flagged if you yourself flag alot of people.
I mean some posts deserve it. But others people are just doing it and hoping they get someone silenced because they got upset, or didn’t agree, or whatever.
The purpose I believe was for a better community not to satisfy some personal vindication.
Thank goodness as was indicated, the GM’s are doing a good job of getting rid of the nonsense flags.
And yes I am sure there are not as many on their team for this these days based on the world issues.
That’s an interesting observation I hadn’t considered. I wouldn’t have thought they would have kept that precise a check on players, given how active the forums can get.
It does happen. We just don’t see it. I’ve seen a few examples from the CS forum about people abusing systems and getting punished. The fact we DON’T see it is what makes it so hard to know they’re doing their job. Except for the fact that it seems they’re either incompetent, inconsistent, or swamped by an overload of reports.
The first one can be resolved by training and better hiring practices. The second one involves stressing the importance of consistency and/or removing people who are not consistent. The third can be handled by more employees.
Oh it’s not that hard depending on their forum background systems. I’ve ran a forum myself before in the past and there can be any number of information system available to you as a moderator. It’s like a open data-base and all it really takes to view it is look at the profile. It wouldn’t be that hard to say have all past times you flagged someone be in such a system, along with all the times you yourself have been flagged. Or any past actions taken on your account from those flags.
Honestly they could even have a point system for this which could help them decide what actions to take.
Idk, I said that because. Unless I’m reporting people a lot the things I say that get buried usually just get unflagged. But when I’m reporting alot… a different result happens. Maybe it’s just a coincidence.
may I also note, if revenge flagging is a thing. That seems pretty immature. Plus kind of silly, cause you might not even be getting your revenge on the right person.
I am sure it happens. Because if I post on one character for a long time I start getting more forum vacations, I switch posting characters and all of a sudden I am good for a year again.
I’ve gotten 75% of my posts hidden by flags this last week. I do speak my mind even if others disagree. Although my comments may not be what they want to hear, I am generally respectful. I don’t think any of them should have been flagged.
In the end, it is what it is. A handful of liberal players ban together to flag. Then, Blizzard, being liberal with liberal policies, composed of liberal employees see the flagged posts. If they don’t remove the posts, they lock or move the thread. It is an exploit of the reporting system to silence one side of the conversation. It’s what you could say, is systemic. It’s immature and intellectually dishonest.
Just because you don’t “see” it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
From what I “see”, “false flagging” claims have become more of a meme than anything.
Not saying that it doesn’t happen occasionally, but not without consequences for those doing it and not nearly the way the people with persecution complexes claim.
I feel like the powers that be have decided to not go after the false flaggers as a tacit acknowledgement that they agree that not having a down vote button was a bad idea.
Interesting but you are probably right, or more basically it would be a massive undertaking as now I am suspecting that people use the flag function instead of the downvote that doesn’t exist.
Just seems like a lot of extra work as just this week have had like 10 nonsense flags removed. Of course when you do get flagged you worry you might end up actually getting silenced but so far they have removed them all which is great.
Just really interesting when you know exactly who is doing it a lot since it seems to happen quite after they post and it’s irony considering some are hiding behind the “rules” high ground and in reality, they are indeed, breaking the forum code by rapid fire triggering hoping for a silence on things that are either a clash of opinions, or from someone they don’t like from another thread or to support one of their buddies or whatever.
