Horntoad said:People keep talking about accidentally hitting the report button even though it has been repeatedly said that you can't accidentally report someone. If you hit the button by accident you still have to verify that you want to report the post. If you don't the you can hit cancel or the back button on your computer and no report is made. It been moved once and looks fine where it is. If it was moved again someone else would have a problem with the new location. With over 50,000 members there is no way to make everyone happy.
Not to sit on the fencepost here, I'm not exactly middle-ground on this, but my opinion is such:
I
can see why others are worried about it. I was worried, too, that I might accidentally hit the report button, especially on my phone. I have skinny fingers, but I have a tendency to fat-finger buttons at the worst times; so, before I knew there would be an 'are you sure'-type message when you press the report button, I was very nervous about using the thumbs-up on my phone those first couple of days.
That said, however, I
do like the report feature. As everyone else has already mentioned, I don't see myself using it. I would be willing to if I saw someone who was clearly acting inappropriately, but that's just not the culture here on NGA, thankfully, and I doubt that I'll have the misfortune of running into someone who needs reported.
I'm also glad that you mentioned that it was moved, because I thought it was in a different spot before and then I thought I was going crazy for thinking it moved. (Just like I thought I was going crazy for not having seen the stars on each post when I discovered them....last year, I think it was?)
The report button was alarming, no doubt, for many of us who've been on the site 'awhile' and aren't used to it. Change is a part of things, though, and I think it's very telling that atleast one of our 'newbies' (I say that with affection, not patronizingly) says that it seems fine and normal to have it. It's those of us who have been around awhile who notice the ('glaring') new red button and are intimidated by it. To anyone just coming in, it, rightfully, seems like a normal thing to have and they think little of it.
That's my two....well, ten cents worth of opinion, LoL! I'm happy to know that I can't accidentally report someone, and I'm happy to know that the button is there in case it ever becomes necessary. It won't, because we're all a big happy family on here, but it's nice to know it's there, just in case.
