A community for leaders on the Imzy platform.
A couple of changes to help leaders lead : )
First, you may have noticed that reports have been changed a bit just to make them easier to read and address.
View the content being reported:
Click 'show report' to see the actual report being made:
All the tools for responding are located conveniently directly above the report.
Next, to help leaders out a bit, we've created an automated takedown tool for posts that receive a high number of reports.
Whenever this happens, both leaders and users will be notified.
Users will see the following message:
Uh oh. It looks like this {post/comment} has gotten a high number of reports, so it's been automatically removed. If you feel like this was done in error, you can contact the leaders of your community to have it reinstated.
Leaders will see this message:
Hello! A {post/comment} in your community received a high number of reports, so it has been automatically removed. You can view all the reports on it here. This was an automated action, so if you feel like it was done incorrectly and you'd like to reinstate it, you can go to the full {post/comment} here to do so.
Reports from the reported content will still be visible in the leader dashboard so you'll be able to see what happened and address it as you see fit.
The point of this tool is to help maintain your communities and allow leaders to do normal life things like eat dinner or go to sleep at night. You may have a rad little community all day and then at 3am some bad apple walks in and starts throwing worms everywhere. It's always good to have a little backup help.
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As we go forward, we'll be able to assess whether or not the number we have set is optimal and adjust if needed.
Thanks for all your hard work!







Potential issues:
I can report things in communities I am not joined to.
What stops spammers from a 3am spam run where they are also reporting all of your regular content? Headache!!
Sorry I'm just really good at breaking things and thinking like a jerk. Hehe.
Overall I like the idea behind this but just worried about potential for abuse.
This is what I am thinking as well. I think it could be adjusted so the content is marked as potentially rule-breaking and collapsed. But I can see this being abused by trolls if it just makes the content unavailable to regular comm members.
I like the idea of collapsed content or some kind of "wall" like what exists with spoiler or nsfw flagged items.
I just found out I can report stuff in a community where I am the only leader. Useful.
Hahaha I hadn't figured out that trick yet. Nice.
We do have things in place to keep this from being an issue.
Similar to # 1. There are ways to manipulate the system but we are trying to minimize and this is version one, so always a work in progress : )
Okay good stuff! I was scared! Haha
Yeah, we try to think through all of the worst case scenarios for pretty much everything we make or anything that might ever happen and plan for them : ) And then we revise as needed. Haha.
I'm good at worst case scenarios LOL. It has helped in an admin capacity in the past.
Excellent feature! Let us never advertise that it exists outside the leader comms. <.<
And on that note, can I suggest a very slight change in the wording for users?
From this:
Or something like that. Still true, doesn't advertise that it's an automated process.
I trust people! Mostly. Kinda.
(Might not be necessary. You say you've got abuse prevention built in. I'd prefer you didn't tell anyone, including leaders, details about that, but I'm willing to trust in it if you are.)
This sounds great! Part of me really wants to test this haha.
Same. Um, wanna play on my comm?
Remember, /testing exists!
Yeah, but I'm not a leader on /testing ;)
May we also have an idea as to if it is a number across the board for reports or if it is say a percentage of active users that results in a post being flagged?
V1 is an across the board number based on our experience of what signals a general lack of attention- this obviously doesn't apply to a spamming of reports. Bu in general situations, reported content that gets to this number of reports is probably not being seen by the leaders.
A future version could be more complex and allow community leaders more options, possibly % or numbered threshold.
Percentage of active users seems the most logical in my mind for long term success. A personal community with 50 members vs a community with 5000 is a huge difference for an across the board type of number.
If it doesn't yet I think it should scale either with activity or member count. Or better yet how many people visited the community, if you can track that as, as @TheLizardQueen mentioned you don't need to be a member to report something.