[sldev] Your Feedback Wanted on Search Flagging !

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-05-02, at 12:35, Jeska Dzwigalski wrote:
> You've been asking us to do better with inappropriate content and  
> content classification and we've been listening. In an effort to  
> make our abuse reporting system easier to access and more  
> effective, we are planning to introduce a flagging system for our  
> search results - and we'd love to get your feedback.


My feedback, as a 20 year network administrator who has at times been  
at the forefront of the anti-spam effort in Usenet and email, is:

1. I have not been asking you to do better with "inappropriate  
content and content classification", I have been asking that you make  
it easier to report spam. Spam is a content-free concept: the content  
of a message is almost irrelevant as to whether it is spam or not.

2. "this is spam" should be the only option. Any other categorization  
is too open to abuse and is likely to cause you a lot of extra work,  
as well as cause unrecoverable damages to innocent parties. At least  
that's what's happened in other environments.