I recently had a flag land in my moderator’s inbox on a topic a user had with discobot. It looks like the user eventually correctly flagged the post that discobot asked them to flag, but in the process flagged one of their own posts, and one of discobot’s posts that it hadn’t asked them to flag. Sin…

Possibly, what do you think @tgxworld ? Seems safe to me, discobot is not going to do anything untoward. However if you can invite rando people into a discobot PM, then it becomes dangerous as you have invited them into a flag free zone.

It sounds like the suppression logic should only be enabled while the conversation has only the two default participants – as long as this is true, it seems totally safe :slight_smile:

I agree with @fefrei here. With emphasis on the suppression logic should only be enabled while the conversation has only the two default participants – as long as this is true, it seems totally safe

Not sure what the course of action is here, what should we do if a non discobot owned post is flagged: We raise an error saying you are not allowed to flag here We omit the flag option unconditionally from non-discobot posts in discobot topics We keep stuff as it is now (so you can flag your own p…

To be sure, this isn’t a serious problem for me, so it’s possible the right solution is “do nothing.” But I wanted to mention it since it seems like discobot is a relatively new feature, so figured this might be something other people could run into in the future.

We are having the same issue. [image] codinghorror: Whatever is simplest in logic is what I favor, this is a bit of an edge condition. Did anything get implemented that would avoid these from showing in the moderator’s inbox?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 2, 2017, 8:13am 7

Whatever is simplest in logic is what I favor, this is a bit of an edge condition.

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