Crying Wolf: A New Wrinkle in Combating Bloc Collapsing

Rules of the Inn 1786 by givepeasachance

Hey folks - missed you, I've been out of town a little.

Accusations of bloc collapsing have been all over my inbox since this.

I've spent a ton of time digging through all of them - looking at private groups, going through user histories, going back to community-censored articles/comments and searching for patterns. What I didn't find was pretty heartening: no evidence that bloc reporting is epidemic or even frequent here on Newsvine. I did, however, find plenty of users who report based on disagreement. A few handfuls of those can bring down an article. So we're instituting a policy that should result in a little more balance.

If you report an article or seed that is censored and is subsequently restored by admins, you lose reporting privileges for a month.

This only applies if you reported the article/seed as the category it's censored for [If you report it as 'inaccurate', but thirty people gang-report as 'misconduct/unlawful', your ability to report remains unaffected.]

I don't want to discourage reporting. Without it, I can't possibly do my job. It frustrates me when Viners refuse to report clear violations.

And while it's your prerogative to participate as much or as little as you wish with regards to reporting, it's something that Viners really should engage in. You have the ability to improve the standard of your surroundings here. Please use it responsibly.

Also, very few articles have been censored by the community in my absence but I got just as many comment reports as ever. [Is that a good sign? I hope so.]

Thank you for your continued participation in Newsvine.

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