How do you deal with flag spammers?

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You have three options (well, four)

  • directly intervene with the user and indicate there will be consequences for future negative behavior (casting lots of inappropriate flags)

  • turn down “max flags per day” globally in your site settings

  • lock this user to TL0

  • reduce flag sensitivity in your review dashboard, so it takes a higher cumulative flag score for thresholds to be met

I suggest you try those out before jumping to “discourse must add a new feature because of {problem user}”.

That said I am not opposed to limiting flags per day for low flag reliablity users, it is a sensible direction.

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