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How are residents meant to report illegal activity in Cambridge if fellow residents block perfectly legal tickets? Personal political beliefs should not be grounds to block tickets here. I hope City Hall sees this phenomenon and considers its impact. Everyone’s voice deserves to be heard.
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Llama77 (Registered User)
Llama77 (Registered User)
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Llama77 (Registered User)
jk02140 (Registered User)
Llama77 (Registered User)
Llama77 (Registered User)
jk02140 (Registered User)
@Llama77: My position? Other that sharing the concern about what appear to be wholesale blocking of issue reports, I was not aware that I had taken a position other than to warn about making sweeping assumptions. I am not the anonymous person who created the original issue. FWIW, I have had issue reports and responses blocked that had nothing to do with bicycles and did involve messages that were very carefully written to avoid problems with the various guidelines. It seems to me that this is an inherent problem with the SeeClickFix system: If someone reports a problem that is ultimately about the behavior of some city resident (if you need an example that has nothing to do with bikes or cars, consider recent reports about overgrown hedges or trash being put out in the wrong place or time), and that resident can block the complaint for an indefinite period of time just by clicking "flag" and there are no consequences for doing that, it does reduce the utility of the system.
And btw, I agree with your suggestion about a message to the City Council: if this thread, and the many others today about blocked messages prove anything, it may be the SeeClickFix is not a useful forum for problems or requests about SeeClickFix.