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Recently your wayward moderators have become aware of a couple of rumors, myths, and legends regarding the Report Inappropriate Content option, and we're attempting to dispel them. In doing so we hope to improve the community by being more responsive on the smaller things, but we need your assistance with that.
What It Is
The Report Inappropriate Content (hereafter labelled RIC) option is badly misnamed - on the myFICO community we use it for anything which needs attention from a moderator which range from the trivial, to the minor, to the potentially inapproriate things which damage the community. We actually do pretty darned well as a community on reporting the things that harm the community (FSR nastiness, trolling, blatant spam), but we don't do so well on some of the other things such as cleanup (admittedly somewhat trivial) or more importantly, moving a thread to a better location where it can be assisted better by the community vis a vis a question about an open collection is best served in the Rebuilding Your Credit board, rather than Credit Card Approvals.
All the RIC option does is create a message in the Abuse folder which is only accessible to the moderators and admins; this option is available to everyone: users, CL's, moderators, and admins.
It is accessible from any message under Options and looks similar to:
This is not an exhaustive list, but a few common things which the RIC option can be used for:
What It Is Not
This is where the myths come into play; please feel free to add to the list in the discusion (or PM a moderator or admin you are comfortable with and we'll add it anonymously).
Explicitly it is not:
In closing, to reiterate, we're simply trying to improve the forums and clear up some unfortunate theories which seem to have crept in over the years. I know I'm of the opinion this is a fantastic community, but we're striving to make it better and in this case all of you can potentially help.
Thank you all for your contributions on the forums!
--Revelate, myFICO moderator
Thanks for the info. I wondered what that button was for and now I know!
It does seem like a lot of the rumors and misconceptions could be remedied by simply renaming the button to "Request Moderator Assistance" or something like that.
If that's impossible, this post certainly does an admirable job of clearing up the misunderstandings.
@TheConductor wrote:It does seem like a lot of the rumors and misconceptions could be remedied by simply renaming the button to "Request Moderator Assistance" or something like that.
If that's impossible, this post certainly does an admirable job of clearing up the misunderstandings.
Or just call it Yoo Hoo!
After all it is just to attract someones attention...
@Themanwhocan wrote:
@TheConductor wrote:It does seem like a lot of the rumors and misconceptions could be remedied by simply renaming the button to "Request Moderator Assistance" or something like that.
If that's impossible, this post certainly does an admirable job of clearing up the misunderstandings.
Or just call it Yoo Hoo!
After all it is just to attract someones attention...
I like this suggestion!!
So if I send a copy of a Game of Thrones/Power Rangers erotic novel that I've been working on through this report function, I'll be able to receive editorial feedback from the entire moderation team?
Neato.
@Stralem wrote:So if I send a copy of a Game of Thrones/Power Rangers erotic novel that I've been working on through this report function, I'll be able to receive editorial feedback from the entire moderation team?
Neato.
Power Rangers? Nah, it should be Kamen Rider.
the lock has been opened.
How shall it be used... that forbidden fruit?
-Kamen Rider Gaim references, for those of you that don't watch current Japanese TV shows.
えっっ?!誰かが仮面ライダーを知っているのか?!
Alright, color me impressed.
@Stralem wrote:So if I send a copy of a Game of Thrones/Power Rangers erotic novel that I've been working on through this report function, I'll be able to receive editorial feedback from the entire moderation team?
Neato.
Such pure genius. Love the thinking outside the box!