Repeal Wattpad's New Image Moderation Policy
Repeal Wattpad's New Image Moderation Policy
Why this petition matters
Today, Wattpad enacted a new moderation system on "inappropriate" images. Basically, if you post any image on a story, whether it's published yet or not, Wattpad will use a bot to flag it if it is deemed "inappropriate." There are various issues with this system.
One big issue is, of course, all the innocent images that are flagged by this system. A variety of entirely innocent images that are just of anime girls, nothing bad showing, were flagged by this faulty bot.
You might be thinking, "What's the problem? Just appeal the flag!"
That has issues of its own.
One such being that it doesn't even send the private message for images flagged by this bot, which is where the appeal option is. You cannot appeal the images.
Another issue with appealing it is that, why should we have to deal with their faulty bot? It's their bot that's not functional - we shouldn't have to wait for them to give us the OK on the image.
In short, Wattpad's new bot is faulty, and needs to be removed.