@Rebekah
Hi Rebekah! πβ€οΈ Thank you so very much for the forum post. Thank you for sharing your thoughts as well as your directives! Moving forward, yes of course, I will follow them. I would never want to disappoint you, be a problem around here, as my efforts on the platform are to always be of help and never a hindrance! I respect you as well as your authority. β€οΈ
I had some thoughts for you and it's simply in an effort to share and not to be adversarial in any way. You know I'm a team player! π
As someone that is part of the process and daily, I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt I see multiple accounts and they are stacked one on top of the other, in tandem, in the new member line up. It could not be any more obvious than this. In an effort to be most clear, I report in a certain way to show "see next flag" and "see previous flag" and have a time and date stamp on my work, for it to be shown that clearly these are multiple accounts. Same derivative of the user name and my reporting is only seconds apart.
Also, I see the same user names show up at different times in the new member line up, all day and every day. I give it time, I wait to make sure that I see that the user name shows up at least three times to have the utmost confidence in what it is that I am seeing before I finally report it and when I do, I say why and label it as a "habitual offender". This would be for user names that are not stacked together in the new member line up together, at once but are, in fact, habitual offenders.
I wonder why it is that we are still only focusing on the list provided as multiple accounts without the additional ones added that I have clearly pointed out. If we never take in new information and add it to the list then we do not understand our current challenges and focus on them as well. We get stuck in years past (those bad actors) and never address our current situation which can change daily based on the behavior of others.
The old actors change their names and habits and just adopt new ones. So, we get "stuck' and then these people that are trying to be here and for all of the wrong reasons are free to roam? We exhaust the old ones down and so finally they might go away and stop but we have new ones that are doing this. Hey, but they are not the old ones, so....feel free to move freely?
As a volunteer here on this site and someone that puts a great deal of time into trying to be helpful and in a myriad of ways, and yes, on the safety patrol team as well, I wonder why we have to stop the flow of the process, switch gears, report to community@7cups when the tools are at our finger tips and we are taking the time already to send in the proper information for others to see.
The current process takes an inordinate amount of time and it's something that I am willing to do (2 forms to fill out, 2 steps in the process). If I see it, then I flag it. See something, say something. I have no idea how I could find any more time in my day to now report to community@7cups instead. I would have to log out of the site and into my em account.
I'm trying to help the cause of course, I am a volunteer, this is not a paid position for me as well as why is that others cannot see the "flow of my work"? I've put everything that you need in front of you to see the patterns of others and with the date and time stamp and because of my behavior and years of flagging, I would like to be trusted, that If I tell you something, it's gold.
If the "multiple account" option has been so very controversial and over so long of a period of time, why not just remove it? It has been a recent thing added. It could be in everyone's best interest to not have it any longer? Slogan..........if we can't use it, let's lose it! That's my vote! β€οΈ
As for me, moving forward, I will do as I have promised today. Multiple accounts are free to roam on my watch. β€οΈ
*high fives* π and *hugs* β€οΈ