I think it's fantastic. Open search at any given time and the big 8 classifieds are usually 25% mature (last time I looked there were ads for orgy beds and brothels, despite my mature box being DISabled.)

The events listing is full of so much crap I don't even use it anymore.


Lots of sites use a system like this. Flickr and Youtube do, just to name some big guns. I moderate a group of 6000 users on Flickr and let me tell you, they have PLENTY of drama and arguing, but I've yet to see anyone get deleted from there that wasn't obviously a fake account used to troll and harass people. With a little common sense, this kind of system goes a long way to keep content where it goes. As far as I know, Flickr actually has a policy in place to punish anyone abusing the flagging system... you act like a jerk and gather a lynch mob, and YOU will get banned.

Maybe I misread it, but it doesn't seem to me like LL is saying that with X votes your ad/land/event/whatever will disappear forever... they're saying that if enough people in the community raise an eyebrow at something, they will get re-checked by someone in charge. In other words, if someone decided to band together and flag child avatar hangouts (as the above poster stated) they certainly could flag it a million times, but that doesn't mean LL is going to remove it. Just that they will look at it. And actually, if you got flagged and checked and were deemed OK, it would seem to me that it'd go a long way towards proving your cred with LL.

Also, I love that this feature is only available to non-anonymous accounts. I don't want to start the paid vs. non-paid war, but I will say that LL would be very smart to start offering MORE features to paid accounts, and give less voice to people who refuse to stand behind their opinions with a verified account.