It's highly localized. There turn out to be a small number of people who generate large numbers of bad flags. (Bad = flagging something that does not end up getting killed.) Which meant the solution was to be able to turn flagging off for individual users.
It might improve flagging accuracy if you included it on users' profile pages. Give people a metric and they'll tweak it. The result might be dramatic.
Just being able to measure how many - and which - flags were 'good' flags and which were not would already help.
I flag 10-15 stories per day and very occasionally a comment (maybe three times in all so far or so), but I'd have to track all those stories to see if they end up getting killed or not. Most of them are easy calls, the outright spam. But there are border cases where it would be good to know exactly what the guidelines are.
Especially since 'bad flagging' seems to be a problem, if there is a lack of clarity there then by resolving that 'bad flagging' as an issue might go away.
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It's highly localized. There turn out to be a small number of people who generate large numbers of bad flags. (Bad = flagging something that does not end up getting killed.) Which meant the solution was to be able to turn flagging off for individual users.
It might improve flagging accuracy if you included it on users' profile pages. Give people a metric and they'll tweak it. The result might be dramatic.
That's a really good one actually.
Just being able to measure how many - and which - flags were 'good' flags and which were not would already help.
I flag 10-15 stories per day and very occasionally a comment (maybe three times in all so far or so), but I'd have to track all those stories to see if they end up getting killed or not. Most of them are easy calls, the outright spam. But there are border cases where it would be good to know exactly what the guidelines are.
Especially since 'bad flagging' seems to be a problem, if there is a lack of clarity there then by resolving that 'bad flagging' as an issue might go away.