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It makes it sound like Google is humouring the Home Office a little. I suppose the point of the "super-flagger" status is that whomever has that title is known
by basicallydan 13y ago
It makes it sound like Google is humouring the Home Office a little.
I suppose the point of the "super-flagger" status is that whomever has that title is known by Google to not be a troll, who flags wildly and arbitrarily.
- ajcarpy2005 13y agoYou mean a government can't troll? :/
- basicallydan 13y agoI think a government is capable of trolling. I think it's less likely for a government to troll than an individual Internet user, in the traditional "trolling" sense. Trolling isn't just "pissing off other users", it's "pissing off other users for the lulz". That's a very dumbed-down definition of trolling, too. I think it's unlikely that a government would piss anybody off just for the sake of it. I suspect they'd have motives to do with economic or social goals on some national or international level. However, that doesn't mean that this alleged power can't and won't be abused in the way that a troll might abuse the flag power.