Cannot re-hide an edited flagged post

awesomerobot · September 15, 2026, 9:02pm

nice find! that’s a bit of a twisty one… I have a fix in the works that will also migrate out of the bad state

github.com/discourse/discourse

FIX: Hide post when agreeing with a re-flag after the author's edit (#43706)

main ← fix/reflag-revives-reviewed-flag

merged 02:12PM - 16 Sep 26 UTC

awesomerobot

+209 -12

Reported here: https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-re-hide-an-edited-flagged-pos…t/412481 When an author had their post flagged and hidden and then they edited it, the flags are trashed. But if the original flagger flagged it again after the edit `PostActionCreator` revived the old flag with the earlier resolution still set. In this state the flag isn't active, so agreeing with it again approves the reviewable without hiding the post and additional flags get rejected as "already reviewed." The fix is to only revive trashed flags that were never reviewed. The included migration clears the stale review on revived flags if they have reviewables still pending, so moderators can take action on them.

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Cannot re-hide an edited flagged post

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