Can I ask a favor when replying to threads in this chat?
I have noticed it has been a common thing for people to flag comments for abuse and spam when clearly the agent wasn't doing anything to deserve it. If you don't agree with the statements voice your opinion nicely but don't flag other agents falsely causing them grief and possible bans for things they did not do. I have 18 abuse and 1 spam on my account because people weren't happy with what I said and wanted to get niantic to censor me. This isn't being mean but OPR discussions should not be used for throwing flags at people for making comments you do not agree with. I have noticed this issue and it was supposedly being looked into.
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Would be useful if it was looked into, 95% of the spam and abuse flags that I have on my account can be attributed to two people, even had a portal removal request has marked as abuse as well as a general forum question, by people who are seeking to weaponize the abuse / spam flag.
Does flagging even matter? Seems like they're just there for show, the admin doesn't seem to remove flagged posts unless there's a real cause for it.
Also you should see the General section of the forum, particularly that open letter to all ingress players. Almost all the counter posts get like 5+ flags for whatever reason, presumably because they disagree with the OP.
My advice is think nothing of it and move on.
Can I at least unnecessarily like/insightful your posts?
It clearly doesn't matter look how many TimerCIock has and he's still kicking. I've asked about the flags and nobody responded. That one post using the n-word to make a point was removed so they may be monitoring things? Not sure if it was by OP or a moderator honestly.
All 4 of my Spam comments are invalid complaints simply because someone disliked my response. It happens. I doubt Niantic will react to it in any way unless it becomes a significant problem.
All of my spam /abuse markers of from two individuals I belive, one being TC and the majority from another player, who recently changed their IGN (was brilliant to notice the player name also updated here, so changing name did nothing...)
Flag is now removed \o/
Is the disagree button new? I don't remember seeing it before. An new option besides flags?
Yes it's new.
Finally, after saying a number of times that they wouldn't add a "dislike" button, they did it anyway.
Must have got tired of people using the flag button for stuff they didn't like.
Not sure either option is a good idea but it was definitely not smart to just have the flag system!