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

Is there any plan to make this configurable? In our forum the previous way was working just fine and multiple users have already complained about not being able to read flagged messages. I’m not sure I understand the point of this feature anyway. Right now your whole screen can be full of “This message was flagged” messages. If user is not able to expand the message, why even show the “This message was flagged” message?

Either way, everyone being able to read flagged messages is somewhat wanted feature in our forum since we have quite high standards for messages so a flagged message usually don’t mean that it’s complete spam, but just that it doesn’t bring enough value to the thread. We also have active thread where people discuss about why their posts were or weren’t flagged and so on. Our forum is hosted by Discourse and we’re on enterprise plan in case it matters.

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