# Ability to Flag a Part of a Post

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-flag-a-part-of-a-post/66694>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2017年七月24日 03:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-flag-a-part-of-a-post/66694 "2017-07-24T03:12:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [2017年七月24日 21:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-flag-a-part-of-a-post/66694/8 "2017-07-24T21:02:20Z")

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> [@HAWK](#):
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> Curious about your answers to the above qs also.

Sure, I’d be happy to share my thoughts.

> [@HAWK](#):
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> So if you were to flag part of a post, what would be the desired mod action? That they removed that part of the post?

From the admin side I think it would function the same way. Essentially it would trigger a “something else” type flag PM where the selected part of the flagged post would appear in the PM.

> [@HAWK](#):
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> Does this happen so frequently that the ‘Something Else’ option would be suboptimal?

I would not say that it happens often, just that flags on giant posts can be hard to parse through. Flagging part of a two sentence post wouldn’t be particularly useful, but flagging a part of a large post (for example my [Discourse Moderation Guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116)) would be extremely useful.

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