The Triond flag button was introduced to the Triond writing community on July 14 of 2011. This is a drop down box or button at the bottom of each article that provides the writing community with an option to identify articles that are spam, adult content, plagiarism, poor quality or wrong category.
The flag button was introduced to the Triond writing community on July 14 of 2011. This is a drop down box or button at the bottom of each article that provides the writing community with an option to identify articles that are spam, adult content, plagiarism, poor quality or wrong category.
Basically the Triond Forum left us and Triond is asking the writing community to police the articles that are published on the site. There are some benefits for the flag button such as identifying content that is subpar and should be removed from the site. The subpar content that should be removed would fall under spam, adult content, plagiarism and poor quality for flagged articles. The only other choice for flagging, wrong category is a flag that would have your content remain on the site. Though, along with these benefits come quite a few drawbacks for the flag buttons and the process that should be recognized and addressed by the Triond community.
Overkill flagging
There are those members among us that will take the flagging of other writers content seriously. They may take it a little too seriously and look for violations where there aren’t any. These are writers too busy flagging to write an article. They feel it is their sworn duty to flag articles and if they don’t, something is wrong in their universe. These writers may use the Triond flag button to flag articles that don’t fit into the categories, but they will put a flag on an article whether they meet one of the five flags or not. These are definite drawbacks to the flag button.
Not involved flagging
These are Triond writers that aren’t interested at all in the program. They may run across content that certainly warrants a flag, but they don’t have the time or won’t waste the effort to flag them. They could care less about the adult content article because they are busy or otherwise engaged.
Content Haters
Content haters or sworn enemies are the flaggers to watch out for. These are writers that will use the Triond flag button to make trouble or stir up a nuisance because they may feel slighted by another writer. These flags are not warranted or will simply delay a writer from publication because another writer wants to make trouble with the flag button. This is one of the major drawbacks to the flag button at Triond.
Afraid to flag
Writers that are afraid to use the Triond flag button to flag another writer’s content do exist. They may fear they will be identified and receive repercussions for flagging content that meets the flag description. Will they be identified to a writer they have flagged? Will their articles be boycotted because they have flagged? This writer will not flag because they are afraid to flag.
These are a number of drawbacks or disadvantages to the Triond flag button and process. There are some great benefits to the system that I haven’t outlined here. However, there are also some major drawbacks for the flagging process that should be addressed.
The long term goals of Triond are to use writers to weed out the articles that are less than quality and relevant as well as going against a lot of general policies of Triond publication guidelines. The idea is to clean up the site. I am still not certain if using the Triond community to take care of this process is a great or not so great idea. The jury is out for the moment. Hopefully these drawbacks will correct themselves, but so far this hasn’t been the case.
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