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by nickdothutton 405 days ago
Users reporting users is a terrible way to manage account misuse/bad behaviour. Your average user on your average platform is a low form of life incase you hadn’t noticed.
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Worse is if your competitors report you and get you banned while having profitable ads, there goes a large marketing channel and likely a chunk of revenue, think shopify stores, restauranteurs. Reddit is full of these stories
It's an okay way as long as the ultimate decisions are made by real humans.
Real humans are really good at choosing the path of least resistance. E.g. Reddit's outsourced 'Anti Evil' team.
It depends a lot on how you train and incentivize them. Most big-corp social media seems to not care very much about false positives, but it doesn't have to be like that.