Admins can be silenced due to a chat flag

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The discussion is about how admins can get automatically silenced when a TL4 flags their chat message, preventing them from being able to participate in chat until the silence is removed. User hello-smile6 described the steps to reproduce this issue - promote a user to TL4, have the admin send a message in chat, have the TL4 flag that message, and see the admin get silenced. User mcwumbly pointed out that a change was merged to address this, so admins should no longer get auto-silenced from chat flags. Overall, the users identified and discussed an issue where admins could inadvertently get silenced from chat, but a solution has been implemented.

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I promoted a user to TL4, and they flagged a message sent by me (an admin with TL4) in chat, causing my account to be automatically silenced. Admins shouldn’t be able to be silenced automatically by flags in my opinion.

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Create an admin account and a separate TL4 account.
  2. As the admin, send a message in chat.
  3. As the TL4, flag the message sent by the admin account.
  4. Observe how the admin gets silenced automatically, and is unable to reply until they remove the silence or handle the flag.
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@j.jaffeux merged in this change earlier today, which should address the main issue here:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/21854

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