Campaigning members to report posts... Allowed?

A mod, hurrah! *reads*

This sounds like it's allowed but will likely result in problems for the people doing the campaigning. I'd like that, lol.

 

right... so are we allowed to campaign members to report posts?

 

no, we don't need 'gangs' ganging up on someone. the current system works as far as i can see.
if you see something worth reporting, report it.

 

Funny, because a user group on this forum has been campaigning people to report posts (as you know, because it has been reported to you by me), the posts it has called on people to report in "full force" have been removed and the thread where they are calling for people to "come together" to mass report posts remains.

Could you explain why, if it's against the rules, it's allowed to go on and be an effective strategy of censorship?

 

I agree, but is it allowed? If not, what are the repercussions if it is done?

So what is the reason for allowing a thread where a user calls for other members to report a post "in full force" to go unchallenged while the post they ganged up and reported "in full force" got deleted?

 

Honestly, there's no value to multiple reports, because it only shows as one report to us, and the subsequent reports are just added into the first. So really, if the members are trying to overwhelm the moderators with waves of reports for the same thread trying to make a big statement, we really just see the one report with the additional members listed on it.

So basically, from an administrative standpoint, it's not going to affect us one way or the other and it's not going to prompt us to take any different action.

 

tiktok, sarahk disagrees. She said "A post that has been reported twice is likely to draw attention more quickly".

Either way, What i wanted to know is if it is allowed or not. Regardless if you think it makes a difference, whether you think its worth doing or whether you think it's effective. What i want to know is if it's allowed or against the rules to campaign members, members who probably haven't even seen the post in question, to report "in full force" posts?

If the moderators don't know what the rules are how are we supposed to?

 

i recall saying no, no gang activity. are you trying to turn this into one of your no good P&R pissin matches?

Sarah says a post reported more then once would draw attention, what she didn't say was its ok for a gang of people to go around reporting the same post. i'll consider it spam.

 

I'd also be inclined to consider it spam, and I would likely add those members to my ignore list, and their posts would go unnoticed.

One reported post should be sufficient to identify an issue; mob mentality isn't going to influence my judgement.

 

I've been offline, nice to come back to an answer.

We can campaign, but if mods decide not to delete the post and it's apparent a group of people reported it multiple times for no good reason they'll get infractions/ignored.

Stox, thanks - this was all a bit too confusing for me.

 

And others had very different things to say.

it's not personal opinions i'm looking for, it's clarification on forum policy.

The thing with rules is they can't be relative. it's no good you handing out infractions if other mods don't, you saying multiple reports don't make a difference if to other mods they do or you considering it spam if other mods don't. Basically the policing of the forum can't rely on your particular mood that day and which particular mod happens to be the first to see the report.

Now that this particular situation has arisen and specific clarification has been requested could you guys maybe get together and decide? Because i'm honestly none the wiser since this thread was started as to whether it's allowed or not.

Obviously that's fine. it's not what i'm asking though. I'm askling if it's in line with forum rules to start threads in which people campaign other members to report a post "in full force" with the specific intention of making the moderation team "take action".

So far we have narrowed it down to being "more than likely" an infractional offence, should the moderator be so "inclined", depending entirely on which moderator sees it.

 

so this is how you start your shit in P&R, by misquoting people.
i never said that multiple reports didn't make a difference. where do i say that?

what mod here has said otherwise? every mod that has weighed in here has agreed it could be considered spam.

again with the misquoting. you must be a politician.

and this is getting old. if you can't accept whats being told to you, leave and never return.

 

All I'm looking for is clarification on forum policy, so far all iv got is the varying mods telling me what they might do, none of which agree.

Is it agaist the rules to campaign members to report a post or not? Feel free to confer, in fact, please do, we might actually get somewhere.

Sarah I'm not really concerned with what you, or other mods, might consider it as. I want to know if it's forum policy to allow or prohibit threads which campaign members to report a post.

 

You can all report whatever you want. It's still only going to show up as one report in our queue (any subsequent reports show up as replies to it; not new ones that are going to bombard us and make us pay more attention to that over others).