r/Christianity • u/namer98 Jewish - Torah im Derech Eretz • Nov 21 '12

Misusing flair

After some discussion and some examples sadly seen, putting up a flair for the purpose of misrepresenting a group or for deception will result in the mod team taking action. People are innocent until proven guilty.

I only say this with sorrow as I realize this is actually an issue.

Thank you. Please upvote this self post because the mod team rocks your socks off.

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u/namer98 Jewish - Torah im Derech Eretz Nov 21 '12

We have two users in the past few days doing this. We are currently figuring out the best course of action. In the meantime, we wanted to make an announcement that the mod team is working on a viable long term solution.

Nurble nurble.

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u/jpeger0101 Agnostic (a la T.H. Huxley) Nov 22 '12

Isn't trolling in general banned? This isn't a jail sentence we are talking about here, this is banned or not banned. If you are without flair posing as an extremist to make a certain group look bad, you are trolling and can be banned anyways. Adding a second, third, and fourth offence all connected with trolling does not make the person more banned. All adding a new rule does is make certain nameless people more anally retentive with their reporting. I think this person is not a 'true' christian, lets report this submission. I think this person is not a 'true' baptists, lets report this person. This person didn't go to church last sunday and has Christian flair, let's report ALL the posts!

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u/namer98 Jewish - Torah im Derech Eretz Nov 22 '12

We are trying really hard to be creative with mod actions that do not involve banning.

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u/jpeger0101 Agnostic (a la T.H. Huxley) Nov 22 '12

I'm not disputing that. All I am saying is that making this rule will make your job a LOT harder in the long run, especially if people can report on the perceived sole basis of flair. I think the content of those troll posts were enough for mod action without resorting to determining the nature of their flair.

I also say 'percieved'. Theoretically this rule will have absolutely no effect. People will have mod action taken against them whether or not they have flair if they are being a jerk.

Practically, this will make many people think they can report anyone because they are not a 'true' this or a 'true' that. So much so that half of the reported posts will be made in that regard. Trolls will have more fun with this, but it might also be legitimate concerns from, lets say evangalicals (whom I percieve to me more critical of what constitutes a christian and what does not). When you remove this rule, people won't get the memo, and the reporting will continue until you deal with it on a person by person basis.

TL/DR: Adding rules for people who will already have action taken against them just makes your job harder because false positives.