The persistence of posts hidden by flags are a bane to our community

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I also agree with other users here that hidden posts should be completely hidden from normal viewers. Users get fixated on a lively argument, or if a post has inappropriate content even more so, and they’ll take advantage of any UI that is offered to view it. Try putting a physical big red button with a “Do not push!” sign in a public space and it will probably get more pushes than if you change the sign to “Please push me”.

Thanks for this very helpful tidbit. I took it a step further to completely hide the entire hidden post for normal viewers while making it still visible in a faded color for staff. But I’m not very good at CSS, will this have any unintended consequences that haven’t occurred to me?

body:not(.staff) {
    .post-hidden  {
        display: none !important;
    }
}
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