A discussion on notifications for flaggers when a flagged post is edited has taken place. wolftune suggested implementing a feature to notify flaggers when a post they flagged is edited and the flag is removed. codinghorror agreed and asked for thoughts from @eviltrout. eviltrout suggested that @gerhard, who is working on minor flagging improvements, could implement the feature.
gerhard has since implemented the feature, which notifies all flaggers of a post when it is edited and unhidden. codinghorror confirmed the feature’s behavior. wolftune agreed that a setting to turn off the notification may not be necessary.
The notification uses the existing “edited” notification and has certain conditions: the post must be hidden when edited, the edit must cause the post to be unhidden, and the author must edit the post themselves. gerhard provided an example of the notification. wolftune found the implementation potentially adequate.
Surprised to not see this or any past topic on it:
After a flagged post is edited to be fixed and remove the flag, it seems to me to make sense to offer (a setting probably) for those who originally flagged to get a notice about the new edit.
For one, it would let them see that the update is done just to continue the discussion now that the problem is fixed. But if the problem isn’t fixed, it would give the flaggers the chance to flag again so people can’t just do inadequate edits to make flags go away.
Yes, as I mentioned there, this has bugged me for a while. Any thoughts @eviltrout based on your current work? Perhaps you have more actual flag data to look at with that work?
I probably don’t have time right now for it, but I did see @gerhard is working on some minor flagging improvements. Perhaps he could do it while he’s in there?
Yay! I agree that a setting may not be needed, as long as nobody ever has the desire to turn this off (I know I would never turn this off).
Should be obvious, but the message content should be some mix of encouraging flaggers to check that the edit is okay, flag again if not, and otherwise go ahead and continue the now respectful, productive discussion if the edit fixed the concerns.
Currently there is no additional copy. It uses the existing “edited” notification.
For example, @alice will receive the following notification when @bob edits a hidden post flagged by @alice.
There are a few conditions for you to receive that notification:
The flagged post must be hidden when the edit happens. So, if you are the only flagger and the post is never hidden, you won’t be notified about the edit.
The edit must cause the post to be unhidden. It won’t notify when the post stays hidden after the edit.
The author must edit the post themself. It won’t notify when the post is edited e.g. by staff.
so this notifies all flaggers on a post when the post was edited and unhidden? I’ll need to try this out and edit copy, etc?