Powerbottom, you are arguing with someone who essentially agrees with you. I concur wholeheartedly that the current system is deeply flawed.
I just think a CM doing something highly subjective to stop the flagging is better than doing nothing at all. Because I hate to see perfectly reasonable opinions — whether I agree with them or not — get flagged.
Subjective is all we’ve got, sometimes. Not to go all meta-philosophical-off-topic, but sometimes a person has to make a call.
I really don’t disagree with you, lol. I may be inarticulate in what I am saying, is all.
The bottom line on Lore is he acted like an unprofessional sensitive child by publicly calling out part of the paying customer base and insulting them. He lost any and all credibility right there and then.
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Relax killer, its a discussion, thats all. There is no malice in my post.
Agreed, yet here we are. The OP in this thread was flagged so much its actually hidden. Its a free for all.
Yes. But that can happen within objective parameters. The mods having an aspect of discretion isn’t the inherent problem, its the amount of discretion due to the lack of objective parameters to narrow things down by default.
To make an analogy… Subjective CoC with nearly unlimited mod discretion would be like a field goal kicker in football having the uprights spaced 100 yards apart.
A more objective CoC narrows down the range that mods have to utilize that discretion, such as a the uprights being spaced 10 yards apart.
So, yes, quite often a judgement call of interpretation will need to be made. But the size of the spectrum that said judgement call can occur is determined by the CoC. It could be narrowed down to a more reasonable standard, but it is deliberately left open ended.
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I think the threads that Rhi linked in the op are good examples of false flagging, and things like people alt jumping to flag threads should be a huge no no. They also need to restore the requirement that you need a sub to post on the forums.
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It does. It’s tempting to take that route when you feel things aren’t fair. I don’t think it helps, but I get why people would do it.
Sweet sassy molassy, what is wrong with these salty 'bros today?
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I want to know if it’s the same people each time, like some little hit squad that works together to troll the forums, or if it’s just en masse and everyone is going nuts.
If the former then I hope they know it’s something they’re watching.
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Mass-flagging is happening this morning, I swear. That’s what, half a dozen innocent threads now all hidden because some twits flagged them?
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Its been happening for the past few days. If I can switch characters and like a comment multiple times, maybe one can flag someone multiple times that way as well?
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You can’t tell me what to do, you aren’t my mom!
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In other news it’s apparently possible to flag your own posts on the same character.
That thread “This topic is temporarily closed for 24 hours due to a large number of community flags”, Blizzard opens it, comments, and its locked again. The premise of that thread the same as this one.
Insert trademarked “soon” meme here…
Sorry, but Blizz getting something right hasn’t happened in a while. I have no faith they will have a decent fix for this outside reverting the forums to the previous version.
Sorry but that C&P was useless. Someone already posted that, and we already gave our opinions on it.
Ninja, we are on the same page. I posted about this and warned that this could happen before the new forums were implemented.
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Not at all.
Simply reinforcing that OP is being helpful.
Oh and btw "This is a public service announcement’ is not pretending to be anyone.
Although i would like downvotes back you need grow up and simply move past a post. Flagging is not a replacement and not having the ability to avoid clicking something on a post you disagree with is quite sad.
If you really disagree so much respond to it and articulate why. Jeeze.
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Probably the twitter crowd. This is what they do on Twitter and why it’s such an echo chamber. People can’t simply disagree anymore.
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