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>Given "ourselves" is all of us here, a way to illustrate that in a trustworthy way would be to expose the meta data around the story. Which articles were flagg
by burger_moon 10y ago
>Given "ourselves" is all of us here, a way to illustrate that in a trustworthy way would be to expose the meta data around the story. Which articles were flagged and removed, who flagged, how much it mattered, etc.
Publicly pointing out who flagged a story seems like a bad idea. I think the data should always be anonymized. I just think it will lead down a bad path to ostracize people for specific votes or flags.
I do however think it would be interesting to see some data after the fact for some stories say ones that reach 500 points or greater.
- reitanqild 10y agoPublicly pointing out who flagged a story seems like a bad idea. Possibly better idea: Moderators could take a look at unfairly flagged stories and silently adjust flag weights for flag-abusing users. This is of course based on my unscientific thought that the majority of interesting (IMO) stories flagged of the frobt page are removed by competitors (political or business-wise) rather than moderators.
- walterbell 10y agoAnd commercial reputation management / PR firms. See the book Grassroots for Hire.
- detaro 10y agoUnless I'm completely mistaken, the mods already do that (at least they've said "we'll take flagging privileges away from users that abuse them")