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Because I feel like a chump, not knowing if my flag effort counts or is being secretly ignored. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just doesn't feel lik
by joe_bleau 16y ago
Because I feel like a chump, not knowing if my flag effort counts or is being secretly ignored. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just doesn't feel like it's in the spirit (or what I perceive as the spirit) of the site to trick me like that.
I'm not sure if I'd want to know my flags are being ignored. I know I was pretty disappointed to lose my downvote ability a few weeks ago (I was one of the 200-500 karma notch babies). Knowing that I'd lost an unearned flag ability might be even worse. On the other hand, if I knew, I wouldn't bother with the noobstories page anymore.
- dolinsky 16y agoI hear what you're saying, and as someone who has been on this site for about two years and still treated as a sandboxed user, there are times where I wonder "why bother flagging" when there is no feedback provided to show me my affect on the system. Then I take a breath, close the browser tab, get back to work and realize that I care too much at that moment about something very low on the totem pole that isn't going to increase my effective output for the day. We can't have it both ways, unfortunately. The more transparent the voting and flagging mechanisms are on the site the more likely they are to be gamed. I'm ok with just 'doing' and not worrying how much of an effect it has on the site.