Hi there, Thanks James for being proactive on this over the weekend and thank you Jan for bringing this up!
Yes those comments were highly offensive. I deleted some and banned some other users. Our Fb tends to be more concentrated nexus of offensive trolling. G+ we can apply the same discretion of going through and deleting the offensive commentary. On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:16 AM, James Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > I have hidden the worst thread I saw (I'm on vacation still but felt it > was pretty bad) as well as a couple of the stupid comments. > > I also think leaving a comment as Wikipedia warning the user who made the > thread I hid would be good. I got a 2nd opinion from Philippe (no one else > was responding) but am going to wait for 20 minutes before I post. Will go > ahead and do so if I don't hear anything to the contrary. What I plan to > post is below (this is in response to their latest post in the thread about > how you have to respect other peoples opinion, I don't have to accept your > opinion that someone is a 'disgusting beast' on our page, no) : > > You are welcome to have your opinions Kitty, however you are not welcome >> to say something like that here. This thread has been hidden (it is still >> visible to you and your friends), I am happy to delete it if you'd prefer. >> Further comments along these lines however will cause you to be banned from >> further discussion on Wikipedia posts. > > > I'm not against having a more formal safe spaces policy that we post on > the facebook page (we can't moderate Twitter much, we can google+ though I > think? at least on our board). I would prefer we have a light hand, but > these comments were not borderline. > > James Alexander > Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation > (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur > > On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Jan Ainali <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there any policy in moderating threads on social media accounts? >> >> I am specifically thinking on this example: >> https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10153251771908346 >> >> There is quite a few demeaning comments there. I would have hoped for a >> zero tolerance policy towards these. Now the volunteer who was taking the >> photos are trying to debate (forgetting to not feed the trolls). >> >> >> *Best regards,Jan Ainali* >> >> CEO, Wikimedia Sverige <http://wikimedia.se> >> >> >> >> *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till >> mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* >> Bli medlem. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org [email protected]
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