What should our policy be for removing content or accounts reported as abusive or illegal?
Pirate VikTue 16 Jan 2018 9:05AM
This thread was promoted by a report on the matrix channel regarding and account the the complainant felt was inappropriately sharing images of young children.
Kannan V MTue 16 Jan 2018 3:14PM
To promote transparancy, a list of conditions on which a post will be removed (or other actions like banning a user) should be written and published. and users must be notified when an action is taken. A policy must be made (if it doesnt already exist) I think.
Pirate PraveenTue 16 Jan 2018 3:29PM
I agree we need set rules and processes to tackle this. We can start with a minimum set of rules and expand if needed. We can start with illegal content, abusive can be quite subjective.
Pirate VikTue 16 Jan 2018 9:00PM
Suspending an account whilst content is verified is a good option IMO.
In the case of the current post, I would propose a rule that displaying pictures of people below the age of consent and tagging them as sexy is unacceptable
Pirate VikTue 16 Jan 2018 9:02PM
We need to consider the balance between free speech and the rights of the children in the images who are not likely to have consented to their pictures being posted in that way.
Proposed Account Removal Policy
proposal by Pirate Vik Closed Fri 2 Feb 2018 6:29AM
On receiving a report of content that does not comply with the rules of our pod, that account will be investigated by a maintainer.
If the content is found to be in breach of our rules by the maintainer the account will be suspended for a period of 7 days to allow other maintainers to comment.
If there are no objections within the period of 7 days the account will be deleted.
If there are objections to the account being deleted within the 7 day period, the period of suspension may be extended.
The rules are:
Content will be considered automatically in breach if it breaks the law in India.
Content that attempts to sexualise minors in any way is prohibited.
Results
| Results | Option | Votes | % of votes cast | % of eligible voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agree | 1 | 100 | 3 | ||
| Abstain | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Block | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 36 | 97 |
Pirate Vik ·Tue 16 Jan 2018 9:03AM
What does everyone else say?