Look at my account. As of now, I've got 175 spam charges and 383 abuse charges. I have exactly -100 points. Okay, here's a link to some of the comments of mine that have been flagged:
http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/36611#Comment_36611http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/36663#Comment_36663
(The OP)
http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/6473/so-does-glory-stay-after-season-4/p1
(The first few under the OP)
http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/18/character-wishlist-thread-3-0/p1
Pretty stupid, isn't it? I've ticked off a few people with some of my opinions, and now they just follow and flag me for everything. It's ridiculous. Look, I don't care who you are, you don't deserve to be flagged for everything you say, no matter what it is. Even if I say something abusive, which I don't think I have, I don't deserve to be flagged for all the non-abusive things I've said. Look, my basic point is, why do those things need to be shown on our account? Even if someone does say something abusive and gets flagged a bunch, there's no reason for that to be broadcasted to anyone who accidentally clicks on their account name. This is especially true in this kind of a public place. There are bad people. There are immature people. There are irresponsible people. They shouldn't have an influence on what people see on other people's accounts. Honestly, it's not okay. If someone reading this right now disagrees with me and they say: "Well, this isn't entirely correct... Long in short, I disagree.", I could literally go to all of their comments that I can find and flag them for it. That's bullcrap. I'm not going to do that, because I'm not an immature punk. Don't make being reported effect Points, and don't make it be shown on our page to members. Make it available to Moderators, but others don't need to see those phony flags. I've seen people say things like this:
"You have 349 abuses on your page, please stop acting like you're a saint.".
That's an actual quote. I'm not going to say who from, because apparently that's not okay, but it proves my point. People don't need to see this ****. If they can, they just whip it out when they don't have anymore valid points during civil debates about the game.
Also, the ability to view who has responded with "Agree" or "Spam" was removed by Kabam. Why? Just... why? This doesn't fix anything. It doesn't stop people from abusing the flag system, it honestly just encourages it. If someone is petty enough to go around and flag everything someone says, but they don't want to be caught, then they'll do it due to this change. "Why?" you might ask. Because we can't see who's doing it! They can't be held accountable by their peers! The only people who can see who flagged what is moderators. Mods have even said to me that "The only time this comes into play is when
multiple users flag one of your posts..." I put the word multiple in italics because it shows that mods don't usually check posts that are flagged once or twice. Plus, we as users can't even contact the person who is flagging us and ask them to stop since we can't see them! So, people get to flag every one of our posts, we can't ask the person to stop, and mods don't care enough to remove it. It just gets to sit there for all to see. And the only reason that this was changed so we can't see who flags is because of a thread that asked for it. Here's a link. Just read what I said right here:
http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926/#Comment_2926
Also in that thread, many people said that they can be harassed based on what they report, so it shouldn't be visible. Well, yeah. People can also be harassed based on what they are flagged for. I don't care if the person who flagged it is visible or not as long as it isn't broadcasted for all to see. Long in short, just make the spam and abuse charges disappear from our profile page to other users.
And finally, for those of you who are deciding on whether to flag this post of mine as well: I win. I have won with this post. If you flag it, you prove my point. People will see the flag and agree that I'm right, so you're actually helping me. I'll just post a link to this page every time you flag me for no reason. And if you don't flag me, I also win. Then I'm not getting flagged anymore. I won't even care if it proves my point wrong because the problem will be resolved. I win no matter what, so just go away.
Let me know if you agree down below. This is an annoying problem. And please don't say "Well, it doesn't matter! Being reported for abuse doesn't matter if you aren't abusive, because then you won't get in trouble!". Don't say that. If it doesn't matter then why is it there? Just remove it for my sanity and the sanity of other users. Thank you. Let me know if you agree and why.
-CrusherOfDreams
