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You now have the option to flag other people's content that you think is inappropriate for users under the age of 18. However, nothing will happen to that content unless multiple people flag it. Only then will it be sent to the Abuse Prevention Team for review.
Well, that's better than just one person being able to go on a rampage, but really I think this is only going to be effective against rogue trolls who are just dicking around on their own and can't be bothered to create sockpuppets (what happened to the restriction that an account had to be older than a month to be able to flag anything? ETA: Apparently that is still the case. Also, each account only gets five flaggings to hand out per 24 hour period) or get together a group of their trollish friends, never mind active coalitions of people out to "sanitize" things to their own standards. This is probably going to create a lot of garbage work for Abuse. Why the heck would you want to increase your workload, especially with the possibility that so much of it would be "noise"?
If your content is flagged by other users, adults will still be able to access it as long as they have the appropriate permissions.
Presumably only after the nebulous "review by Abuse"! Regardless, I still really, really hate the idea that it is up to other people who are not the service provider themselves to determine what is "okay".
I also really don't understand why they continue to post this stuff in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lj_biz instead of, you now, news where it belongs, although at least they did provide a link.
Well, that's better than just one person being able to go on a rampage, but really I think this is only going to be effective against rogue trolls who are just dicking around on their own and can't be bothered to create sockpuppets (what happened to the restriction that an account had to be older than a month to be able to flag anything? ETA: Apparently that is still the case. Also, each account only gets five flaggings to hand out per 24 hour period) or get together a group of their trollish friends, never mind active coalitions of people out to "sanitize" things to their own standards. This is probably going to create a lot of garbage work for Abuse. Why the heck would you want to increase your workload, especially with the possibility that so much of it would be "noise"?
If your content is flagged by other users, adults will still be able to access it as long as they have the appropriate permissions.
Presumably only after the nebulous "review by Abuse"! Regardless, I still really, really hate the idea that it is up to other people who are not the service provider themselves to determine what is "okay".
I also really don't understand why they continue to post this stuff in
lj_biz instead of, you now, news where it belongs, although at least they did provide a link.
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Date: Nov. 30th, 2007 02:40 am (UTC)From: