New Report / Praise Tool

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

Just a note. You can now report & praise members. Regarding the Report Feature, the key difference is this: Reporting a post will send a message to the admin regarding the post and will allow you to give an explaination (you can write a message to the admin about the post); Reporting a member is an automated process that simply documents in a database that someone 'reported' that member (the admin will recieve no immediate notice).

The goal of the new member reporting portion of the function is to get feedback from members anonymously to help us find trolls and other problems. If we see a member getting lots of reports we can take a look at them. If you report a member do not bother reporting them a second time within two weeks as we screen for that (the report will not add anything to the database). We want to get fair feedback and not people playing games with the new tool . The time limit is again two weeks and you can re-report or praise them after that time.

BTW, you can praise or report members in the drop down menu under their name. You need to be a member to use this feature.

Edited June 28, 2007 by Captain Ewok
updated with new features

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Cap'n,

I christened the new system with a member report

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

You just reported me . I saw that!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

sorry, a trolls gotta do what a trolls gotta do

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Captain,

Anything in the system that will detect when a single user reports more than a certain number of members in a short period of time? One could, technically, report every member on a thread one is unhappy with, thereby diluting the output of the new tool.

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

Well before I answer that I just made the system require you to be logged into before you can "report" people. So it is a member only feature. The reason is that Yahoo just started reporting about 20 people by following those links!

To your question there is not limit on reporting people. However you can only report them once. Only members that have large amounts of different members reporting them will even stick out on the reports page. In other words, don't worry about people randomly reporting you. This will only show really good stats over time as many different members may report certain members more than others (hopefully thus indicating where problems might lay). Additionally that is only a tool to help us. We get the final say and if it just looks like people ganged up on a person wrongfully then we can ignore the #'s so th speak .

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Cool. Makes sense.

Good idea, btw.

[no name 1]

To your question there is not limit on reporting people. However you can only report them once. Only members that have large amounts of different members reporting them will even stick out on the reports page. In other words, don't worry about people randomly reporting you. This will only show really good stats over time as many different members may report certain members more than others (hopefully thus indicating where problems might lay). Additionally that is only a tool to help us. We get the final say and if it just looks like people ganged up on a person wrongfully then we can ignore the #'s so th speak .

Capn we are having that problem in VJ now, I think this tool will only accent the imbalance and cause a round of negated reports, if you will.

Person A has 20 reports. Person C doesn't like A so they get their friends to report them, thus cancelling each other out.

Edited June 28, 2007 by devilette

[Jenn! 918]

Great feature, thanks!

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

It is only a tool and has a human behind it. If we see abuse (people reporting tons of members) or otherwise then we will take that into account. I think this will give us added direction but certainly not a deciding factor. Like I said, just because a person is unpopular and may get a lot of reports does not mean they have done anything wrong and us as humans will see that. But it certainly narrows the field in finding problems ahead of time.

I am more concerned with the potential for abuse when a person gets all their friends to report the Post and I get 10 PM's reporting something. More odds for abuse in that system but it seems to work 'ok' for the most part.

[cheeky^Wolf 0]

Hands up all in favour of cap'n publishing monthly stats on this new feature

The VJ Wall of Shame.

P.S. I'm kidding

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Hands up all in favour of cap'n publishing monthly stats on this new feature

The VJ Wall of Shame.

P.S. I'm kidding

It may not be a bad idea for a member to know (privately) when he/she receives more than a certain number of reports.

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

Well I am not as concerned about the sheer number of reports in a short period of time, but more for members that get consistent amounts of reports over a longer period of time. In other words, everyone has a bad day and may piss off people. Just because that happens once in a blue moon we should not flag that as being so bad. What is bad on the flip side would be members that get lots of reports over a period of time.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I don't think members who registered today should be allowed to report members today.

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

What if they were lurkers on the site for months before they registered? Impossible to tell. I screen by other things than member accounts to prevent abuse (confidential of course).