[Lorric]

I was actually called by the local constables for a comment I posted once

It was how to kill a goldfish, related to the topic of "How can I kill my goldfish"

Why would you want to kill a goldfish? Or was it not really about killing goldfish?

[Nuke]

I was actually called by the local constables for a comment I posted once

It was how to kill a goldfish, related to the topic of "How can I kill my goldfish"

get a turkish van. that fish be dead.

[deathfun]

I was actually called by the local constables for a comment I posted once

It was how to kill a goldfish, related to the topic of "How can I kill my goldfish"

Why would you want to kill a goldfish? Or was it not really about killing goldfish?

No, it was actually about killing a goldfish

Someone I know had a goldfish who was basically in the process of dying. She wanted to put it out of its misery, so she asked facebook

[Klaustrophobia]

i think maybe i can stop reporting spam videos/accounts on youtube and just settle for blocking now.

[Wobble73]

Earlier this evening I saw on Facebook an image of a man in a prone position hugging/comforting what looked like a child that had been injured at the Boston marathon and someone had photo shopped the image of a naked fellow having sex with him from behind! The only reason this image appeared on my timeline is because someone I knew had commented on it to say how disgusting it was. There are just some very sick people out there! I'll admit I was outraged at seeing this sick sight!  Somethings do need censoring!

[Lorric]

I don't think people need to stop reporting legit problems.

The article was about how the girl had reported it as a lesser offence, so it got shoved in with all the meaningless crap people complain about instead of being elevated directly to the top of the pile as it should have been.

Whoever cooked up that image and posted it needs dealing with.

[Nuke]

dont censor the internet censor the jackoffs. like with a bullet (or impalement).

[Wobble73]

dont censor the internet censor the jackoffs. like with a bullet (or impalement).

After seeing that I agree with you wholeheartedly!

[Aesaar]

I don't think people need to stop reporting legit problems.

The article was about how the girl had reported it as a lesser offence, so it got shoved in with all the meaningless crap people complain about instead of being elevated directly to the top of the pile as it should have been.

Whoever cooked up that image and posted it needs dealing with.

It was probably posted as a lesser offence because the 7 year old didn't know better.  The article was about how idiots complaining about bull**** distracts from the actual legitimate things.

[Luis Dias]

IMHO a 7 year old on facebook is simply someone's fail at parenting. Or is it just me?

Not just you, but I think that this particular 7-year-old had some bigger parenting fails in her life.

Really. What the **** was that comment railing about? A girl gets raped by her uncle and the failure is her using Facebook? What.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Facebook doesn't cause these behaviors, nor are you exposed to them as a Facebook user. Why does this make you glad you don't have Facebook? These things are going to happen with or without some ****ty social networking site; your disgust should be aimed at the crimes, not the method used to detect them.

Not exposed, you say?

Earlier this evening I saw on Facebook an image of a man in a prone position hugging/comforting what looked like a child that had been injured at the Boston marathon and someone had photo shopped the image of a naked fellow having sex with him from behind! The only reason this image appeared on my timeline is because someone I knew had commented on it to say how disgusting it was. There are just some very sick people out there! I'll admit I was outraged at seeing this sick sight!  Somethings do need censoring!

I prefer to have the additional safety margin of not touching Facebook with a ten-foot pole. Anyway, sorry for going off-topic.

[General Battuta]

Facebook doesn't cause these behaviors, nor are you exposed to them as a Facebook user. Why does this make you glad you don't have Facebook? These things are going to happen with or without some ****ty social networking site; your disgust should be aimed at the crimes, not the method used to detect them.

Not exposed, you say?

If you're friends with people who are raping children or conducting honor killings and posting it on Facebook, I don't think that's Facebook's problem. Wobble's quote is nothing particular to Facebook - you're more likely to get that on a discussion forum, actually, which I suspect you use by your presence here.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Now i feel bad for reporting that pro-life page as a hate group :-(

Yeah, I used to report every ad I saw as spam... oops.

Yeah, I used to do this, too, to see if I could make FB run out of irritating ads to show me like it can (temporarily) run out of annoying people that it thinks I should be "friends" with.

Now I just have Chromium add-ons that remove absolutely everything from my home page and news feed except for actual posts by my friends.

As for the article...holy crap. I...was not aware how difficult a Facebook moderator's job could be. They couldn't pay me enough to do that, and I'd probably put a gun between my teeth after a week.

[karajorma]

What I'm wondering about is why people are putting so much obviously illegal stuff on Facebook. It does make me wonder if you could solve a huge number of unsolved cases by making a website called Crimebook and seeding it with a bunch of stories of criminals talking about their misdeeds. Leave it up for a year and then prosecute anyone dumb enough to have commented.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

What I'm wondering about is why people are putting so much obviously illegal stuff on Facebook.

Because they're stupid? 

[Nuke]

they just dont want to commit the crimes they also want the glory of doing so. possibly some of them want to get caught. i dont think its as simple as derp.