Flagging Posts

I do not understand the need for flagging posts.  When you think a post is  inappropriate,  why not just tell the poster instead of this flagging  business? If you believe it to be spam, why not just post that?
If you find that the poster has decided not to follow your suggestion of deleting post  or placing it somewhere else, just send an email to a moderator and he will handle the whole thing.
 
 

It has also recently been posted that there is no mechanism for the software to notify a moderator that a post has been flagged.  Would it be better to use the "Report Abuse" button.

FWIW, I have seen a recent increase in the number of SPAM posts.  I consider these to be trolls who are just poking in for a quick post or two hoping that someone will click on one of their affiliate links to generate themselves a couple of quick bucks.  They add nothing to the community here - and threaten to leave the posting landscape littered with these useless posts.  What's worse is that they use key words - so that their post might be seen if someone does a Google search.  So, someone Googling "houston restaurants roadfood" this morning might have found one of these SPAM posts, for instance.  My opinion is that it dilutes the value of this site, both for the regular users and even the owners (for risk of someone popping in on a Google search, finding a SPAM post, and leaving disheartened). 

The Travelin Man


It has also recently been posted that there is no mechanism for the software to notify a moderator that a post has been flagged.  Would it be better to use the "Report Abuse" button.

Stephen Rushmore, Jr. posted that this feature will be available to moderators when a new version of this message board software has the "bugs" solved.

Greymo


I do not understand the need for flagging posts.  When you think a post is  inappropriate,  why not just tell the poster instead of this flagging  business? If you believe it to be spam, why not just post that?
If you find that the poster has decided not to follow your suggestion of deleting post  or placing it somewhere else, just send an email to a moderator and he will handle the whole thing.
 
 

1.) Once the original message has been replied to, the O.P. cannot delete or move it.  Not to mention that a SPAMer or advertiser won't want to delete it.
 
2.) The flagging process includes the selection of a category, and the option to send text to the moderators/admins/webmaster.  According to The Travelin Man, that actually doesn't work, so the messages that those flagging inappropriate posts send are actually going nowhere!

Flagging.  It's like the dodgeball of the internet..

Can the Moderators see who is flagging?

chewingthefat


Can the Moderators see who is flagging?

They've said they can.

I think instead of flagging, the Moderators should substitute that feature with a picture of someone beating a dead horse..

chewingthefat


Can the Moderators see who is flagging?

Much more importantly, can the moderators see who isn't wearing any pants?

I think we can ALL see who isn't wearing any pants.

annpeeples


I think instead of flagging, the Moderators should substitute that feature with a picture of someone beating a dead horse..

Now we are demeaning horses?

i95

chewingthefat


Can the Moderators see who is flagging?

Much more importantly, can the moderators see who isn't wearing any pants?

If they can, I want to be a Moderator.

chewingthefat

i95

chewingthefat


Can the Moderators see who is flagging?

Much more importantly, can the moderators see who isn't wearing any pants?

If they can, I want to be a Moderator.

I don't!  I've seen some of the people who post here!