Request to add "Spam/ Advertising" as reason when reporting post
There are many unwanted spammy advertising posts on 7cups that I find need reporting so they get deleted promptly. These posts are obvious and usually very easy to distinguish from other posts as they usually include attention grabbing messages and urls in the title. Or, in some cases, they're just a jumble of incoherent words, letters, and numbers. When you click the flag button to report such a post, it requires that we give a reason. So far there is only "Graphic, Racist, or Sexual Content" and "Other" as options.
I would like to see "Spam/ Advertising" or something along those lines added as one of the reasons for reporting. This should hopefully help with categorizing reports for users and help internally when reviewing said reports.
@Zeraphim Yes, please! Nothing else to add, just commenting so more people see this.
@Zeraphim I'm pretty sure that's already on the list. @Anomalia can probably confirm.
The reason for flagging was added fairly recently. I think because many of the people who have access to the flag posts lists already delete spam quickly it wasn't the first reason to be added to try it out.
@Zeraphim - We definitely want to expand that list and when we are able to get some dev team support to do so, Spam will absolutely be one of the categories to be included. In general, I think the expected categories would probably correspond to each of the forum guidelines, as well as a few additional options like "Duplicate Post" or "Author Request"
@Anomalia
Thanks for the update. Do you have an approximate time scale for when this'll be rolled out?
@Zeraphim
Just flagged a bunch of "live-stream" threads so your post was perfectly timed.
@Suranta - I don't because it's dev team dependent, but I'm hoping we can push this through in the not too distant future!
