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by JonnieCache 5616 days ago
>how will this look if thousands of people submit reports at once?

This app will be used during specific events, not all the time. If there's a protest with many thousands of people involved, and this app becomes well used enough to attract thousands of reports at once, it is not unreasonable to imagine a good few hundred trusted, trained volunteers to crosscheck reports.

If you have thousands of reporters, you will be able to get hundreds of volunteer moderators. These are student activists remember :)

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Who watches the watchers?
Just let them flag reports so they are hidden by default, rather than deleting them. Then everyone can watch everyone else, UK activists are used to that now: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/22/undercover-police-c...