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I think anyone can 'report abuse' but in the end, it will be up to Andrew's discretion, whether or not the offending material should be deleted. Although we all have differing ideas of 'abuse', I do think that when someone uses extreme profanity, is lewd and vulgar, aggressive, disrespectful, angry and degrading, then that definitely needs to be reported. The best one can do is report offensive material. Common sense tells us--it's plainly obvious when someone is going over the top. I haven't had any pervy notes, but I have had two disgruntled, Aunts, who pm'd me , with what they thought of my advice. It was actually quite 'petty, cynical, purposeless' stuff, actually. But in no way, would I have ever 'reported' them. I'll tell you why. I still didn't feel they disrespected 'me', the person, because---they simply do not know me. They just didn't like my opinion. I read their columns and got a 'feel' for how they think, and I found that the advice they gave was really quite insightful and helpful. So even though they didn't like what I had to say, they still had meaningful advice to give to others. And isn't that what this site is all about..helping people in need gain perspective and giving them options on how to deal with troubles. Anytime you have a 'open forum' like this where a great amount of diverse opinions bandied about, you are always going to get 'someone' who gets miffed at what anyone of us, might say. So we have to really have to distinquish 'abuse' here. The Aunt who wrote the perverted messages to Malyce and Stina, was indeed, abusing the system. The profanity, the vulgarity couldn't be ignored. Those are the people that need to definitely be reported and booted off the site. And even if they come back, under other account names, they are the same person who will do the same thing and they will be caught. They will be reported and reported and reported, until they finally give up and just go away. As far as others, reporting all of us, let them. I am sure Andrew will read the material before making a decision, as to whether an Aunt is being abusive or not.
Posted on 5 May 2007 @ 16:1 (London time) - permalink
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