Use of spam reports for unpublshing

Thanks for your continued support and involvement! Just a quick note regarding the use of spam reports: please don't use this functionality to unpublish posts and comments that are not very clearly spam. For clarification, spam is unsolicited commercial email with no clear relationship to theatre. It's vital that spam reporting not be used for any other purpose for the following reasons: 1) it pollutes the automated spam marking system The site uses artificial intelligence to identify the likelihood of posts being spam. It bases these decisions on past reports. Marking posts that are not spam as spam confuses the AI about what is and isn't spam. As a result the number of false positives - inaccurately auto-tagged spams - increases and leads to significant frustration when people find their legitimate posts are rejected as spam. 2) arbitrary unpublishing or removal of posts and comments, quite apart from constituting censorship, exposes everyone involved in maintaining the website to unreasonable risk. Our legal advice is that posts on this website do not constitute defamation and that, as long as the site is unmoderated, responsibility for what is posted rests with the person posting the message. If a single post is unpublished for any reason other than marking spam or in response to a formal complaint, we will be held liable for everything posted on the site. Please do not take it upon yourselves to unpublish posts. If you receive a complaint regarding content on the website, please be sure to direct people to me personally by passing on my email address (grant.malcolm@gmail.com) mobile number (0401 216 962) or by forwarding the complaint direct to me yourselves. Thanks again for your help with this! Regards Grant