RE: Poll: Flags or Downvotes?

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andreasgrubhofer in #poll • 6 years ago

No, I guess, not sure haha.

Wouldnt it be better to keep flags and when you click on the flag icon, a drop down menu opens up (kinda like now with a small text/explanation and some options) and youve to choose one or more of these eg. four options - eg. just for better understandin, theres brackets next to these four options and youve to click on/tick at least one, here I "ticked" the first option (Disagreement on rewards/Downvote); the flagged Steemian then might have a closer look at this flag and will notice that he just got 'flagged, reason: Disagreement on rewards/Downvote':

Flagging a post can remove rewards and make this material less visible. Some common reasons to flag

Disagreement on rewards/Downvote (I mean, thats actually the same?) [ X ]
Fraud or Plagiarism [ ]
Hate Speech or Internet Trolling [ ]
Intentional miss-categorized content or Spam [ ]

my point is that it's very important havin these "report" options in case of plagiarism, hate speech, porn...
thats why I wouldnt want flags to be replaced by downvotes.

I hope I aint mixin nothin up... Im sry if I did tho.

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birchmark 6 years ago (edited)

I thought porn was okay on here. I thought there was even a dporn app and tag. I haven't posted anything in it or anything, but I have seen porn on here.

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andreasgrubhofer 6 years ago

ah, I think youre right. wow, thats fucked up.

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birchmark 6 years ago

I get why you might say that's fucked up. I'm not too bothered by it personally since I'd assume there's no or minimal kids on here, and the posts are generally hidden with a nsfw tag so people don't have to see them if they don't want to, but it is also just I guess a little odd as it kind of feels like it is similar to if a website like YouTube had all the Pornhub and Redtube (and whatever other ones there are) videos just mixed in with all the other videos. This is better than that would be because it has tags that posts stay within - I could just imagine porn on the trending page of YouTube (don't think that would go down too well) - but websites which have everything including stuff like porn can be odd sometimes.

I write fiction which sometimes includes stuff to do with sex etc (not erotica but just the same as a TV show, novels of a different genre or a movie might include sex in the plot etc) so I've used "sex" as a tag before and searching that tag to see what was there was how I've found the porn. It's not my thing, but it doesn't bother me personally either. It is odd when you come from / are used to other websites though that don't include stuff like that though.

Not the only place I've stumbled across it though. I made a GTA V video that included the King of the Castle challenge / mini-game thing and I used the hashtag #dirtyrascals on twitter. I clicked it and posts advertised a gay porn series called Dirty Rascals popped up. I find twitter seems to allow more stuff than Facebook at least but I don't know where their limits are. Twitter seems more likely to interfere with people because of user reports than because of the content I think. They do hide things with a warning it may contain offensive content, but they do a terrible job of it and overdo it so that it's impossible to know if what you un-hide is disturbing or offensive or not. It once hid someone posting the utorrent logo from me. That's nothing and didn't need to be hidden. I have shown / un-hidden and looked at things that were hidden that I would have preferred not to because of this.

As long as kids don't stumble across it, the porn doesn't bother me too much though. Power to the people who enjoy it, I guess. I can get why it might bother others though.

I'm having a little trouble taking this seriously though right now, as idk if you've seen The Orville or not but there was simulated porn (on a holodeck, so like VR but if it just was in that room as opposed to needing a headset or anything) in an episode of that, and all I can think of is that.

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