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I sense trouble
Nov. 28th, 2007 10:31 amI went to go look over my reviews, and noticed you can now report those as abuse.
...You can report abuse for other people's reviews, too. I just checked.
I mean, it does have the whole thing about "don't report just because they dislike it" and currently the categories are swearing/offensive phrases and spam, plus "other". But there's no way of knowing exactly what'll get hit and what won't.
Or, for that matter, how it'll be enforced period. I mean, they already can't keep track of people reporting stories for abuse, how's this going to work? (I'm not sure if they've just stopped taking stories down these days, or if it's still hit and miss, or what) More, what happens if they decide your review is abuse? Does it just get deleted, or...
And now that I think about it, I wonder if this is just a stealth attempt to remove inappropriate content. I mean, there was/is that swear filter, and now they're allowing anyone to report reviews for swearing... I'm not sure if I should tie this back to the NC-17 content/hiding R thing, since that's far older. But there's something that bothers me about the direction things seem to be taking.
(And does this have anything to do with the testing by people with beta reading experience? It doesn't seem like it should, unless the reviews are being judged on overall harshness. Which would mean that they'll be judged based on if those beta readers are of the sort that believe "constructive criticism" needs to be fawning to take the edge off or not, which strikes me as really, really worrying. I mean, the projects could be unrelated, but if not...
(And if that is it, things are really bad, because you can get in trouble even if the person you're reviewing okayed it, on behalf of one of their fans.)
...You can report abuse for other people's reviews, too. I just checked.
I mean, it does have the whole thing about "don't report just because they dislike it" and currently the categories are swearing/offensive phrases and spam, plus "other". But there's no way of knowing exactly what'll get hit and what won't.
Or, for that matter, how it'll be enforced period. I mean, they already can't keep track of people reporting stories for abuse, how's this going to work? (I'm not sure if they've just stopped taking stories down these days, or if it's still hit and miss, or what) More, what happens if they decide your review is abuse? Does it just get deleted, or...
And now that I think about it, I wonder if this is just a stealth attempt to remove inappropriate content. I mean, there was/is that swear filter, and now they're allowing anyone to report reviews for swearing... I'm not sure if I should tie this back to the NC-17 content/hiding R thing, since that's far older. But there's something that bothers me about the direction things seem to be taking.
(And does this have anything to do with the testing by people with beta reading experience? It doesn't seem like it should, unless the reviews are being judged on overall harshness. Which would mean that they'll be judged based on if those beta readers are of the sort that believe "constructive criticism" needs to be fawning to take the edge off or not, which strikes me as really, really worrying. I mean, the projects could be unrelated, but if not...
(And if that is it, things are really bad, because you can get in trouble even if the person you're reviewing okayed it, on behalf of one of their fans.)
