Flags

Confirmed users can flag innapropriate contents:

• Personal attack or inappropriate language
• Unwanted commercial content or spam
• Irrelevant
• Not constructive

After three flags, a warning is displayed on concerned comment indicating that there is a pending moderation on it.

Collective moderation

Your flags are then reviewed by users with a high reputation that will decide if the flags are justified.

For each reported action, moderators have 3 choices:

• Confirm flag
• Not sure
• Abusive flag

We need at least 3 moderators to vote before taking a decision. Then we generate a score between -1.0 and +1.0:

score = (nb_confirm - nb_abuse) / total_feedbacks

• If score <= -0.66: Abusive flag
• If score >= 0.66: Confirm flag
• Else wait to have more feedbacks

Examples

• 2 confirm + 1 not sure = 2 * 1 + 0 = 2: Confirm
• 1 confirm + 2 not sure = 1 + 0 + 0 = 1: Re-ask with more moderators
• 1 confirm + 2 abusive = 1 - 1 - 1 = -1: Re-ask with more moderators
• 2 abusive + 1 not sure = 2 * (-1) + 0 = -2: Abusive flag

Reputation updates

For information about reputation changes linked to moderation,
check this.