Saturday, October 17, 2015

A Note About Complaint Volume

When a post is reported for violating Facebook's Community Standards, it seems like the first result is to claim the post doesn't violate community standards, and leave it up.

When a number of people report the post, Facebook re-evaluates it's decision and then decides to remove the offending item.

We don't know what that number is. It would be interesting to find out.

Some of these postings on this blog are still up to this day. Some of them have been taken down after dozens of reports.

That begs the question---if it didn't violate community standards before, why does it now?

P.S. IF the reason the first results are because of a program, and not a human, that is just as bad. Almost worse, even. That would tell me Facebook is only throwing lip service to it's community standards. But, given the amount of legit items being removed immediately, I don't think so.

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