I worry that a measure like this would encourage trolls or people with trollish tendencies to start PMing their interlocutors, which would be a public good but a private nuisance with no outlet for moderation.
I’m not sure. When a comment is reported, I can see how many reports it’s accumulated when viewing the comment in some ordinary context, and then I can “ignore” the reports (making them evaporate), or ban the comment, or leave it alone for someone else to deal with. It doesn’t send me a message notifying me that a report has been lodged. I can’t see other people’s PMs so I’m not sure how I’d become aware of reports on them.
These links collect reported items on main section and in discussion (they work for moderators, not visible if not logged in, not sure about other users):
Well, there goes my apparently silly theory that moderators would have access to a list of pending reports, which would obviously let them see reported PM’s that they wouldn’t be able to see otherwise.
I worry that a measure like this would encourage trolls or people with trollish tendencies to start PMing their interlocutors, which would be a public good but a private nuisance with no outlet for moderation.
Throttle PMs too, then.
There is a “report” link on PM’s. What does it do? We could also add a feature to allow a user to block another user’s PM’s.
Goes straight to Santa Claus.
I’m not sure. When a comment is reported, I can see how many reports it’s accumulated when viewing the comment in some ordinary context, and then I can “ignore” the reports (making them evaporate), or ban the comment, or leave it alone for someone else to deal with. It doesn’t send me a message notifying me that a report has been lodged. I can’t see other people’s PMs so I’m not sure how I’d become aware of reports on them.
These links collect reported items on main section and in discussion (they work for moderators, not visible if not logged in, not sure about other users):
http://lesswrong.com/r/lesswrong/about/reports
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/about/reports
I get the message “The page you requested does not exist”.
That is because you are not Englightened.
Oh, neat, thank you.
Well, there goes my apparently silly theory that moderators would have access to a list of pending reports, which would obviously let them see reported PM’s that they wouldn’t be able to see otherwise.