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Re pics and letting people post them "where ever" its called consistancy as i had said in our last thread but will say it again, you let the dogs in then its the cats, then its the tattoo's then its washing machine and dryer pics (yesterday) etc etc then you have facebook

And after all thats been let in, im sure someone will want porn stars and wrestlers pic's to be ok'd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Again its a dating site , write about likes/dog/cats/tattoo's in your profile, then you and your date have something the talk about or share pics about while getting to know each other

** People also forget if you are so desperate to show violation pics, there is an option called ALIST, yes its a free site, but if you want to do something outside the guidelines, pay the man

BIO an idea to stop some of b***sh*t regarding pics is to offer a cheap pic folder option (only) , say $2 monthly , yes there are a lot of cheap people who will complain about it but im sure a % might go for it, keeping less pics out of flagmod and giving another option other then alist

There was a discussion regarding a free pic folder, is that dead?

And if that happened, would'nt you lose a lot of alist customers?

****Thanks BIO , look forward to seeing the "test" do us old guys/gals have to take it or only newbies

@CFB:

Here are some staff (and former staff) comments regarding how you become a "flagmod":

5-13-2011 by BecauseItOwns:

"You do not need 100% profile completion to become a flagmod. Becoming a flagmod is not an automatic process, we manually run a set of analytics to score the "flagmod goodness" of a user, and give the status to the top X%. We only run this when the flagmod queue starts increasing, meaning there aren't enough flagmods. We also occasionally remove flagmod status for people who abuse it."

9-22-2008 by MeghanBeres:

"You're not really supposed to 'understand' how to get flagmod access. It's just something that shows up for people who meet a certain set of criteria, about which we are Officially Vague for a number of good reasons, about which we are also Officially Vague. Sorry! :) MB"

@spookye:

"I'm getting really sick of mods who refuse to vote to delete pictures that clearly violate the guidelines on the grounds that 'the user has other pictures, so it's okay'."

You may want to consider the following staff comments:

9-9-2008 by melanarchy:

"Flagmod is not a failure because people make their own decisions about the rules, the entire purpose of the tool is to give the community a say in what stays and what goes.  some people will attempt to enforce draconian interpretations of the rules, others will be more liberal and that's the beauty of a system based on voting.  I encourage discussion among voters about what they like and don't like."

10-14-2008 by MeghanBeres:

"There's been no official change in the What's OK, but I do think it's worth considering that we're allowing more pictures than we used to, and that may cause people to use them differently. When you only had a few pics to give a lot of information, it was more important that they were all clear and of a specific type.

Re stuff like poi pics or whitewater canoeing or whatever, I'm big on considering context. If people have multiple face pics, and a clear body shot, they've made a good faith effort to represent themselves clearly. If they want to throw in an add-on shot of them doing something they love, I don't think that's likely to detract from anyone else's enjoyment of the site (which is, when it really comes down to it, what I get bent about).

If your only profile pic is of your dog or of you in tiny shadow-lit 'i-crush-your-head' profile walking on a beach a mile away, you're obviously obscuring your identity on purpose, and I don't feel bad about deleting your pic. But if you have lots of pics that give information about what you're likely to look on a date, I don't mind if you have a shopped one, or a hobby pic, or a costumed pic (this is gonna come up a LOT this month) or even (gasp) a pic showing off your tattoo."

3-10-2011 by BecauseItOwns:

"@oneratherrecent: I agree with almost all of what you wrote. The reason you're not "supposed" to have artwork, or pets, or MS Paint art on your face is because your pictures should give a pretty clear indication of what you look like. Ideally everyone would have those pictures, then it wouldn't matter if they had the aforementioned ones. Unfortunately this isn't always the case, but if you have artwork/pets/etc. then as long as there is a clear picture of you in each of those pictures, they are good photos. I would at least stick rule-breaking photos at the bottom so they only show up for people who want to see more pictures."

For what it's worth here's my opinion on all this:

I vote, in my humble opinion, the best interest of OKCupid. If the pictures suggest the user is a scammer (e.g. photos of internet porn models) then I vote delete.

If the OKC member just wants to post an extra picture of their pet etc. then I vote LA. Faces are not a requirement here so if the picture is just of say "CFB's legs" then I will vote LA since from her other pictures I have a pretty good idea of what she looks like if I saw her in public.

My intention is to build the community and the OKC membership. I don't want users leaving OKC because their picture of their beloved pet, their bike, or their legs, was deleted.

On the other hand, scammers and porn posters will drive users off so I don't have a problem voting Delete on those. I will also vote delete on a picture if say it's the only one and it is of a "flower" (or if all the pictures don't have the user).

As for my personal use of the site, I can always hide users that have pictures I don't like or that don't give me any information about what they look like.

I tend to be more liberal and others are more Draconian and that is OK. Flagmod is about the community setting the standards (within reason).

I wrote a question about how you were able to post an empty comment.

Then I found a way to do it.

Perhaps you did too.

No, it has to be a "glitch":

Nope.

Why in the world would anyone want to purposely post a "blank"  comment on this forum???

I don't know why my thoughtful, intelligent and several paragraph long comment came out BLANK....   right after I posted the comment I got the "normal" box that said I have 10 minutes to update it then I came back about 15 minutes later and pooofff, it was GONE....

Based on what was said here, when posting a comment on the Forums, I am no longer going to use block quotes...  that seems to be the crux of the problem, well, at least in my one-off experience.

My comment, if I remember correctly, was regarding Trish's comment about the little gray heart being a "picture" when the profile has no pictures.    Back in late June... I was being hammered by the DRB Trolls on both my journals/comments and on my profile... getting nasty, disrespectful and insulting comments (even on non-controversial happy subjects not related to politics)  and being flagged for everything imaginable and also I had some romantic IRL issues that were not going well, so I deleted ALL of my pics and I photoshopped the gray heart into a pink heart, tilted it about 20 degrees or so and inserted a jagged crack vertically down the middle... essentially showing that I had a broken heart... well obviously that didn't stay up for long, it was flagged and deleted within a day...   as it should have been per the TOS and picture rules.

OK now, where do I sign up... someone put in a good word for me please.

^^ There isn't a way to "apply" for Flagmod nor can you get flagmod access by others recommending you.

Basically, when the backlog of flags gets large enough, the OKC staff runs their "analytics" and gives flagmod access to those with the highest ratings. They haven't revealed what the criteria for those ratings is (nor do I think they will).

^ I'm pretty sure that the Staff Robot is androgynous ;)

@ spookeye

The pictures that I had on my profile that were flagged and deleted were not of a pet or of artwork but rather they were of me...  my legs and feet... and they were not ECU  .... I showed as much or more of my body in those pics than a head shot in most of the profiles.   I guess the issue there would be how do you define an ECU.  If it is just the face it is OK, but if it is of the legs and feet it is not?    The pictures not showing the user should be deleted per the TOS... that is a very clear rule.

When I become a FlagMod I will certainly enforce the rules but there sure seems to be a lot of ambguity and objective judgement that varies from FlagMod to FlagMod, hence the confusion that us poor users have to endure and me especially because I am not a FlagMod...   yet.

I am looking for my FlagMod message and FlaMod status very soon, thank you BecauseItOwns and others who are influential with the decision makers at OkCupid.