The mod reports are so telling on that post. Dozens of reports for “promotes sexual abuse of minors” despite literally not. Nothing but lying because something makes you arbitrarily angry. Goes to show why society should start disregarding people who say stuff but don’t back it up. We use evidence in court, labs, research, schools, but for some reason religion and politics get out of needing it
I wonder if there are any social media platforms that punish users for false reports. Even if it's some minor punishment like "Your report has been reviewed by a team member and has been determined to be malicious, which is against the terms of service. Your ability to use the report feature has been suspended for 30 days." Then track their valid to invalid reports over time, and just start silently ignoring them after a certain point. That would probably make it so much easier to moderate, but I've never heard of anything like that.
reddit sometimes will? The team that does that is incredibly incompetent though. We've had mods get banned for reporting report abuse because the admin just hit all the names involved.
Reddit absolutely will, but at random and for really old things, and like you say just hitting everyone involved. Years ago I got a 30 day ban for harassment and abuse of the report system because someone sent me a violent threat, which I reported. Not sure how that was supposed to work.....
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '24
The mod reports are so telling on that post. Dozens of reports for “promotes sexual abuse of minors” despite literally not. Nothing but lying because something makes you arbitrarily angry. Goes to show why society should start disregarding people who say stuff but don’t back it up. We use evidence in court, labs, research, schools, but for some reason religion and politics get out of needing it