On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Moriel Schottlender moriel@gmail.com wrote:
Online communities can allow anyone to "report" problem posts or PMs. Only
the moderators see these reports, not the general membership or public. For example, Simple Machines Forum has a report link on every post.
I've been part of the moderation team in scienceforums.net for the past 6-7 years, and I can account for this from the "other side" (of a moderation team member) --- it really depends on how well the moderation team handles these reports, but from my experience, the system has great advantages-
- It allows users to complain about anything from bias to bad attitude to
stalking *privately* and without repercussion (no one other than the moderators knows that something was reported) and when we take action, we take care not to imply that anyone reported the post. ...
Janine, Ryan, Pete and Moriel, these are great ideas. I love the idea of a button that anyone can press to send an alert to a Wikiquette team. How can an idea like this be moved forward? There could be different levels of urgency (low: general incivility; medium: sexism, racism, homophobia; high: harassment, outing, threats).