I’m moderator on a forum and I noticed that if a user reports a post as offtopic, it regularly comes in as a spam report. I also noticed that I reported something as offtopic myself, this came in as spam report. Can someone check what’s going wrong here? Thanks in advance!
AI-generated summary
Albertos, a forum moderator, reported an issue where posts flagged as “offtopic” are incorrectly appearing as “spam” reports in the review queue — including when they flagged a post themselves. JammyDodger tested the behavior on test sites and could not reproduce the issue, noting that off-topic flags correctly appeared as such. Albertos explained they couldn’t easily test further due to concerns about accumulating flags on their profile. When asked if the issue persisted, Albertos replied that it hadn’t recurred, as their forum receives few flagged posts — a situation JammyDodger noted was fortunate. Since no repro steps exist, JammyDodger moved the topic to Product Support, inviting Albertos to report back if the issue reappears for further investigation.
Hello and welcome @Albertos ![]()
I’ve just tried this on my test site as well as on try.discourse.org, and both of the flags I cast as off-topic showed up in the review queue as off-topic.
Are there any special circumstances with the ones you’re seeing that I could try and replicate?
Hi @JammyDodger, thanks for reply! Unfortunately, to prevent I get a lot of flags on my profile, I can’t find out myself if it happens randomly or if something special is done. ![]()
Hi @Albertos ![]()
Are you still experiencing this issue?
Hi @JammyDodger! Lucky for us, we don’t get a lot of flagged posts on the forum. I haven’t seen it happen again until now. If it happens again, I’ll let you know. Thanks!
No worries. It’s a nice situation to be in. ![]()
I’ll slide this over to Support as we haven’t got any repro steps for it yet. Though if it happens again let us know and we can always move it back again.
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