Dear DUers, I have a favor to ask.

[cali]

Mercuryblues posted this thread. I clicked on the link and viewed the page with horror and sorrow and anger and fear all bundled up together.

Warning: this is not for the faint at heart:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022458908


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Domestic-Violence-Dont-make-me-tell-you-twice/438192542917753

It's been reported on and nothing has been done about it. It's a new page. I'm hoping that if we can mass report it, they'll take it down.

If you're a facebook member please go to facebook and report this.

[mercuryblues]

1. thank you

for helping to get more views.

[cali]

19. thank you

for bringing it to my attention and the attention of others.

[gollygee]

2. Oh wow

They probably think they're edgy and ironic.

[we can do it]

3. Everybody needs to quit facecrook NOW. Screw that rotten little bastard and his info theft site.

What will it take?

[MineralMan]

4. Done. I reported it after seeing the thread.

I hope Facebook does the right thing, here.

[dmr]

5. How do you report it?

This makes me ill.

[cali]

6. here you are:

http://www.facebook.com/help/263149623790594/

[Adsos Letter]

7. Done and done. Edited:

Last edited Mon Mar 4, 2013, 07:58 PM - Edit history (2)

EDIT: The site is apparently some troll's mega-flamebait ego masturbation material.

What really is the right response to that? All the negative comments posted on fb are only helping the guy get off. Alerting on it is definitely the right thing to do, but I wonder if commenting isn't just counterproductive?

I don't know...I adore most of the women in my life (wife, daughters, friends and family members) and even those I don't adore I respect. If this troll (or trolls, more likely) is attempting some educational social commentary then it/he/they is failing excruciatingly badly; other than that, all he seems to be doing is advocating violence against women.

What should be done about that? Is this really a First Amendment issue?

[jmg257]

8. Reported. nt

[OneGrassRoot]

9. Done n/t

[LeftofObama]

10. Holy Crap!

I'm not a Facebook member, but that just made me cringe. WTF is wrong with people!?

[handmade34]

11. thanks for the heads up

reported

[Texasgal]

12. Just reported.

Sick.

[Sissyk]

13. I don't do facebook

Is that someone's page? That is sick, horrible.

Can you still report if you don't have facebook?

[cali]

17. Yes you can

I think.

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/reportfbabuse/index.html

[Sissyk]

20. Thank you, cali!

I will try that now.

[Cleita]

14. I'm speechless. I will report this. n/t

[Arcanetrance]

15. Done and asked everyone I know on Facebook to do the same

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

16. Holy Freaking Crap

This page just defies explanation.

Alerting

[bluedigger]

18. Done and shared on FB. n/t

[jsr]

21. Done.

[mokawanis]

22. Reported

Whoever put that page up should be ordered into psychological evaluation.

[LeftishBrit]

23. HORRIBLE! I've reported it.

[Adsos Letter]

24. kick

[Hell Hath No Fury]

25. Reported --

Clearly a troll, but that shit doesn't need to be there regardless.

[Demoiselle]

26. Just reported it. Disgusting.

[daleanime]

27. I can't thank you enough....

I had actually been thinking about starting up on face book, but if it's this kind of sick shit hell no!

[Babel_17]

28. Done, I reported it, I'm not sure what the deal is

but the subject matter is, and I'll be generous, being wildly mishandled if some sort of social commentary is its goal.

[renate]

29. I reported it as hate speech rather than violence

It seemed that it didn't exactly fall into any of the "violence" categories--technically, that is--that Facebook has so thoughtfully provided, which might be why it's still up, but I think it's pretty inarguably hate speech against somebody based on gender, which is one of Facebook's own categories.

I don't know whether other people have tried that too or just gone with reporting it as violence, which normal people would consider it to be. Sheesh. If there was a pro-lynching page, would they leave it up this long, too? I've been reading all day about how people have been reporting it, yet there it still is. Disgusting.

[Babel_17]

33. That was my thinking

I wasn't that happy with the choices so I went through them before settling on hate speech based on gender.

I'm guessing that people at Facebook want to do the right thing but the content is so nasty that this keeps getting kicked up to higher levels of support.

I hope so, anyway.

[Starry Messenger]

35. That's what I did too.

It's appalling that FB will allow you to snitch on your friends if they have a naughty picture and they will have it taken down very swiftly, but something like this takes mass effort when it should be a no brainer.

[Bonobo]

31. Reported.

Disgusting.

[LittleGirl]

32. done nt

[GoCubsGo]

34. Done. n/t

[markpkessinger]

36. I am at work, and cannot access FB, but . . .

. . . I will report it when I get home, and will ask everyone I know to do the same! Disgusting!

[markpkessinger]

37. Is the page still up? My post asking others to alert on it got removed by FB

Can somebody else click on the link and let me know if that page is still up? I got home from work, went to the page, and then created a post on my timeline asking my friends to alert on it. Almost immediately, my post was taken down. It occurred to me that whoever owns the page probably saw my share of the link, and thus alerted on my post. Can anybody verify if the page is still up?

[Adsos Letter]

39. My guess is that it's down

When I click on cali's link it takes me straight to my home page (I logged onto fb first).



EDIT: it also doesn't come up on fb search

[markpkessinger]

40. Thanks. Good to know! n/t

[magellan]

42. I think you're right!

I can't find it now either! Huzzah!

Mysteriously, my post asking friends to report it is gone too...and so are their shares of my post. But hey, maybe this is mission accomplished!

[Adsos Letter]

43. The poster I responded to said the same about his post

I guess this is how fb scrubs their site?

In any case, mission accomplished indeed!

Still gotta wonder what that was all about, though... Troll flamebait, or what?

[magellan]

45. FB scrubs all links to the offending page too?

I suppose that makes sense - in an icky, intrusive way. But I'm glad it's gone.

What I gathered from a visit out there earlier was that the page was run by several people. The person monitoring it and replying at the time claimed to be a woman who had been abused. (I find that hard to believe.) "She" also claimed they did it "for the lulz". You know, do something heinous for attention, coz apparently it's a load of laughs when people get outraged about someone exploiting sensitive subjects like domestic violence.

"She" also found those threatening to have the page pulled by reporting it amusing, saying it wouldn't succeed.

I wonder if "she"/they are lulzing now!

[Adsos Letter]

49. Yeah, I also observed the page for awhile

the whole "men get abused by women too" thing had me wondering if it was some kind of social awareness attempt gone horribly awry...lulz, indeed.

I imagine the troll and its buddies are sitting around yucking it up now, and I can only hope that they are at least feeling the pain of being axed, insignificant as that pain probably is to them.

[Adsos Letter]

44. FB also promised us an e-mail explaining any action taken (or not taken)

as part of their alert procedure.

Wonder if we'll get one?

[magellan]

48. They'll be sending heaps of emails if so

Reporting that awful page spread like wildfire across fb! I know for certain a women's group that said it has 760 members hit it.

[Adsos Letter]

50. .

[jmg257]

54. Weird - I got this one this AM, even though the page is gone...

Hi,

Thanks for your recent report of a potential violation on Facebook. After reviewing your report, we were not able to confirm that the specific page you reported violates Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

Learn more about what we do and don't allow by reviewing the Facebook Community Standards:

They 'couldn't confirm' so it must have been down by then.

[Adsos Letter]

57. Yeah, I got that same e-mail this morning.

Not sure what it means. The link to the site no longer works. Are page owners able to hide their pages from anyone not listed as one of their friends?

[magellan]

58. No, but you can create a private group

...that's concealed from non-members and searches. But I think that has to be done from scratch, ie you can't convert a public page to a private group.

I don't think that's what happened since all our posts with links to the page vanished too. That's FB scrubbers at work.

I got the same email this morning. I'd be ticked off if I didn't already know that page was gone!

[BuelahWitch]

47. I did the same and my post is gone too

But glad to see the page is gone as well.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

38. Done

I just don't get FB allowing this

[Lex]

41. I don't think FB previews every page that goes up but rather responds to complaints. nt

[markpkessinger]

46. Yes, but it was allowed to stay up even after being reported earlier -- appears to be down now n/t

[Lex]

51. Yes, they are slow. nt

[markpkessinger]

53. That isn't what I meant . . .

. . . Earlier, people who reported it received responses from FB saying the page did NOT violate their community standards. That is utterly incomprehensible to me.

[Lex]

56. It must have been determined that it violated it after all

because it was taken down.

[intheflow]

52. it appears the page has been taken down.

I clicked the fb link and it redirected to my regular newsfeed. Good work, DUers!

[dipsydoodle]

55. Same here

Just goes to home page so I guess it has quite deservedly been struck down.

[frogmarch]

59. I reported it and this morning

got this from Fb:

Thanks for your recent report of a potential violation on Facebook. After reviewing your report, we were not able to confirm that the specific page you reported violates Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

But it's been taken down? Good!

[gollygee]

60. I got the same reply

but it's down and I guess that's the important thing.