[info]ex_enamour175 in [info]07refugees

Livejournal recently suspended my accounts without reason and without explanation. I opened a support ticket about it but my questions are going ignored and they aren't responding to me. I've kept asking them about it in my ticket but I gave up. I can't understand it, I did nothing to deserve a suspension. I didn't think that debating with people and arguing were a bannable offense but I could be wrong. I don't know if someone kept flagging me or what. I wasn't the only person suspended that day either Maybe someone here can shed some light on the situation?
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Posted on Dec. 17th, 2007 at 05:18 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]broken_crystal

so it's possible that someone did flag her, and did get their friends to mass flag her as well,

I saw something like that on one of their posts about the adult content flagging, like they don't really investigate something based on one flag but if they get a certain number of complaints then they automatically handle it as abuse.
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 03:22 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]wolfsilveroak

yup, they did indeed say that. only after a certain number of flags on one post/journal will they 'investigate', which means, pull the account.
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 03:34 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]broken_crystal

That is pretty messed up, since basically it's a popularity contest and anybody can gang up on someone to get them suspended.

Oh, wait... that's not anything new.
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 03:46 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]wolfsilveroak

It was brought up to them numerous times the day they instituted the flagging.

Their response? Make it impossible to flag their own posts.

So I guess it's going to take people leaving and taking their money with them for LJ/SUP to realise that some changes were plain ignorant.
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 03:49 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]broken_crystal

HAHA I remember when everybody flagged the post that they made about the adult content.

I hope enough people stop paying for the service that it makes a difference and they notice something is going on.
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 04:36 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]heiko

Btw, is there any proof that accounts are actually banned from flagging?

Just asking, I will search for it myself when I have more time, but it only mentions acting on the flagged posts/accounts but it does not state directly that it will be suspended or somesuch. I merely assumed that flagging would lead to a higher rating (such as over 18).
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 05:12 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]broken_crystal

I didn't see LJ themselves say that, but this is the post I saw where everybody was saying they were going to flag it: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/243697.html?view=16534769

So it doesn't surprise me if LJ got sick of it and just made it so people couldn't flag the entry or did something to the people who were doing it.

I can't find the exact comment where someone from LJ support said that if they get a certain number of complaints then it will be handled as abuse. I just went to the links in my IE history and some of them went back to the main post so I think that comments have been deleted. Here are the other posts I saw about it:
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/244122.html
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_policy/1227.html
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 03:40 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]ciaan

Flagging isn't supposed to lead to banning, just to having labels/filters/warnings put on the post. The flagging system is separate from the abuse system, even though handled by the same team. However, I haven't yet seen them clarify what would happen if someone just flagged illegal material rather than reporting it to abuse. But if they are suspending accounts that have merely been flagged, then they are going against the statements they made.
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 08:37 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]ex_enamour175

But if they are suspending accounts that have merely been flagged, then they are going against the statements they made.

That wouldn't surprise me.
Posted on Dec. 18th, 2007 08:41 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply