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Re:Imgur's Community Is in Full Revolt Against Its Owner by Analemma_ on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @11:54AM (#45104759)
It might, but then you’ve created a whole new set of problems: if anyone can take down anyone else’s content with one click, they’ll do it against anybody they dislike just for the hell of it (this was the case on Tumblr for a brief period: the Report button almost automatically banned the user, until they immediately realized this was unworkable). So if you don’t want everyone to ban everyone, you need a moderation team anyway to handle false reports, and you’re right back where you started.
Re:Imgur's Community Is in Full Revolt Against Its Owner by hellojesus on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @12:03PM (#45104900)
Agreed. I was mostly asking about any legal issues.

The problems are like you stated. We even see this happen with invalid dcma complaints in moderation-heavy environments. There are certainly safety rails such as rate limited reports per user, etc., but then you need some moderation anyway.

But if the legal requirement is, "take down media if the fbi comes knocking", maybe it's just easier to deal with it that way if there is no budget for moderation.

Re:Imgur's Community Is in Full Revolt Against Its Owner by efilife on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @02:04AM (#45112673)
fyi it's DMCA