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I think there could be some simple improvements to improve this situation in the future. 1. Break off the users working on identifying suspects into a non-publ
by tocomment 13y ago
I think there could be some simple improvements to improve this situation in the future.
1. Break off the users working on identifying suspects into a non-public sub-reddit (or other site) and anyone who wants to join should have to read about how to do this kind of work responsibly and read about what went wrong last time.
2. There should a warning to any reporters who try to join the closed site that this is a work in progress and nothing except the official status reports of the group should be reported on.
3. If anyone starts witch-hunting in the public threads then moderators and users (it should be part of reddediquite if it's not) should point those users to the closed forum. (and obviously immediately delete anything accusing a specific person.)
4. Like someone else also said, reporters need to be educated to not report directly from Reddit. It's the raw internet.
What do you guys think? What else could be done to improve the situation?
- arbitrage 13y agowhy condone this activity at all? why not just stamp it out?
- tocomment 13y agoI've heard that more eyes on a problem can be very useful. Also it helps keep the government honest. (And it would probably be really hard to "stamp" out anyway.)
- DannyBee 13y agobecause you can't stamp it out?
- raldi 13y agoYour use of the vague phrase "this activity" muddies the waters. There are two components here, a harmful one and a harmless one. The suggestion is to curtail the harmful activity without being so heavy-handed as to stamp out the harmless activity, too. By conflating them as you do, you're fighting a strawman who supposedly doesn't even want to curtail the harmful activity. But nobody is suggesting that.