More like x amount of reports flags that post joono
an interesting post i saw on the US boards....
Many, many...MANY moons ago (when ebay actually had a moderation team and before the boards were entirely outsourced), one of the 'pinks' made the mistake of actually addressing the issue of pink slaps and bans.
I wish I still had the captured material but, alas, that was many computer crashes ago (and who knew that such info would be as germane a decade later?)
No one actually 'reads or moderates' the boards. Computer programming searches for key words (such as cursing) and flags that post. The report button gets pushed XX number of times, and the computer programming flags the post (or thread).
When the flagged post is examined, it's not examined in context. It's simply looked at to see if it meets or breaks the 'rules'...with no room for interpretation of the larger picture.
Thus...people have received pink slaps for agreeing with someone or even offering sympathy for a fellow []er...if that person is named in the post, it's a 'violation of interpersonal dispute', period.
People have been slapped for 'offensive language' that wasn't...but because enough reports were made for that issue, someone decides "well, it must be a dirty word, even if I can't understand it."
Then to add insult to injury, let's say someone is directly targeted for elimination from the []...Let's say I get XX number of slaps for posting contrary opinions during election week (because maybe I am being 'difficult') with the admonishment that I'd better straighten up and fly right..or else.
Then...with enough effort and free time on one's hands...*someone* can then decide to go back through several years of my posts here on the [] and report every stinkin' thing that even hints at being a violation (see above)...I then end up suspended because I hadn't 'learned my lesson'...Never mind that nothing previously said was actually worthy of a slap... Never mind that it happened long before I was warned and there's precious little I can do about words spoken out of love or sympathy years ago.
Whining to the moderation team won't change this...if it was effective, changes would've been made a decade ago when they first instituted the blasted report button.
I very rarely post on the [] any longer because of this asinine 'moderation' and having seen the results of these 'policies' ruin the [] for dear friends as well as having been the target of attacks myself. It is, what it is.
Signatures suck.
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