Flagging

[louiselux]

It's blowing a gale outside and raining hard. It's good being inside with tea and internets and writing.

However! I've been attempting to manage my stress levels by mostly ignoring the LJ flagging thing, but I'm failing because every time I see 'flag' on someone's post it gives me a nasty little shock and I get all mad. What's the point of it, if you can already just contact the abuse team about a post you are offended by? Also, their definition of offended is gloriously vague. As far as I can tell there is still no clear system for judging the complaint either.

I haven't changed my journal settings to 'adult concepts' or 'explicit adult content'. I can see how this might be genuinely useful though, to protect oneself. Especially now that LJ have upped the stakes.

Comments

[avierra.livejournal.com]

I have been pondering how many people are hitting the "flag" button as they think "I wonder what this does."

I read LJ's flagging explanation and it's the same vague folderol they delivered after the TOS bannings. One would have thought they'd have learned from that to have a well-thought-out strategy in place before they do stuff like this, but apparently not.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I keep wanting to click to see exactly what it does, even while well aware of its damaging result.

LJ has handled this badly, yet again. Siiigh.

[baka-gaijin.livejournal.com]

I have been pondering how many people are hitting the "flag" button as they think "I wonder what this does."

I've been wondering the same thing. XD