A comedian I like got some really nasty comments on her main Facebook page. I don't like the hate female comedians (and female gamers, by the way, for those who aren't into gaming) and I think toxic people of any kind should be banned from absolutely everything, so I thought I'd just report it just for the heck of it. How many times did I have to click?
Eight. And they even make you wait a bit after the seventh click. Not only that, there are entirely pointless suggestions along the way like "send a message to the author of the comment to resolve this problem".
The internet is full of garbage, data from humans reporting some of it should be put to good use. And they should receive feedback on what is being done with it. StackOverflow does well here. I have flagged a lot of garbage on that site. As of this writing, StackOverflow tells me that I have raised 44 helpful flags (flags that have been acted upon, usually deletion of hopeless content). And Facebook does this in a most excellent manner, giving me a notification with what they did. Grade: A.
I consider this this to be a common problem. The number-of-clicks-part is certainly not hard to fix. Two clicks is enough. Simply count the number of clicks. Does it exceed two? Then it's too many. Oh, and never force me to write anything.
Eight. And they even make you wait a bit after the seventh click. Not only that, there are entirely pointless suggestions along the way like "send a message to the author of the comment to resolve this problem".
The internet is full of garbage, data from humans reporting some of it should be put to good use. And they should receive feedback on what is being done with it. StackOverflow does well here. I have flagged a lot of garbage on that site. As of this writing, StackOverflow tells me that I have raised 44 helpful flags (flags that have been acted upon, usually deletion of hopeless content). And Facebook does this in a most excellent manner, giving me a notification with what they did. Grade: A.
I consider this this to be a common problem. The number-of-clicks-part is certainly not hard to fix. Two clicks is enough. Simply count the number of clicks. Does it exceed two? Then it's too many. Oh, and never force me to write anything.
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