99th_Monkey
99th_Monkey's JournalIs there ANY limit to the number of posts a DU member can frivolously flag or alert?
I'm trying to imagine a way for DU to stem the rising tide of frivolous alerts & flags I keep seeing, while serving on Jury Duty.
Don't get me wrong. I totally love the jury process, and doing jury duty too. But I feel it's increasingly being abused by lazy, thin-skinned busy-bodies who impulsively flag to impugn an OP author's character and/or motives, i.e. "eek it's a "troll!!" .. rather than accessing their creative juices to muster an adequate reply to the "offending" post.
Repeatedly I see posts flagged that are simply opinions, there's no personal attack, nor is there any other violation of DU's TOS. The post being flagged is simply an opinion the flagger did not like, they are "offended", get their panties in a bunch, and they apparently just can't restrain their fingers from leaping impulsively for the "Alert abuse" button.
I'd love to brainstorm about this; perhaps by posting an OP; but I felt inclined to check in with Admin. beforehand.
And/or maybe there IS some DU mechanism already in place that I'm not aware of. If there is I'd love to know about it.
Best regards, ~99thMonkey
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