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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^ Yes, I agree with this; talk of snitching misses the mark. Snitching is when a member of one group (schoolboys, criminals) is betrayed to an enemy group (teachers, police) for some action they had hoped to conceal. In the case of reporting a post, there is no attempt at concealment, and no enemy group - unless that is how we perceive the mods?
Why not say that reporting a post is like this: you are in an office or restaurant and you notice that the toilet is blocked. It's a helpful gesture to report the problem to the janitor and makes life more pleasant for everyone.
Yes, I know it's an imprecise analogy but at least it upgrades the mods from "the enemy" to janitors. (No need to thank me, mods  )
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I think this analogy works. Someone could have just reported a post that was disgusting like a clogged toilet. I don't understand what's the hoopla over that for?
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Sorry man, but that is seriously wrong.
Snitching is when someone from THE SAME group tells on that group. If a cop were to tell on a prisoner, he's certainly not a snitch. If a pupil told on a teacher, not a snitch. Cop giving his buddy away: snitch. Criminal selling out another of his kind: snitch.
That's how it works.
And again sorry, but your toilet analogy is not only imprecise but completely irrelevant. That's like saying don't let mods know if the site isn't working properly, which of course anyone would and will do. Now, if you'd said that if you saw someone cussing someone out in the toilet and THEN went to tell the management, then that would be certainly a lot more accurate, and relevant.
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Sorry man, but that is seriously wrong. A cop really doesn't have opportunity to snitch on a prisoners. Cops apprehend "perps" then they booked, and set up to appear in court, cops usually testify against who the person who perpetrated a crime in a court room, but at time the "perps" are now defendants and they're presume innocent until they are found guilty by a jury of their piers, they are not prisoners until a conviction when they are sent to jail or incarcerated in a prison. Cops generally don't come across prisoners, it's the prison guards who do.
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