I have a question about the recent change where flagged posts that are deleted by the author are automatically marked as resolved without a staff member reviewing them. I hope I’m misunderstanding something about how this feature works.
Just because something was deleted later does not mean that no harm was done.
For example, let’s say badActor sends innocentGirl an inappropriate image via PM. She flags the message as soon as she sees it. He notices that she is online and may also see that the PM now has two views and deletes the post. The system then automatically marks the flag as resolved, and no moderator ever sees it.
This could happen repeatedly to the same user, or across multiple users, without any staff member ever being made aware of the individual cases.
Perhaps innocentGirl eventually uses “something else” instead of “inappropriate” to ask the moderators how she can better protect herself. This flag would also be automatically resolved as soon as the original post is deleted, so no one will ever answer.
I find it hard to imagine that this is intended behavior, so I assume I’m missing something.
In the case of off-topic posts, I can understand how deleting them solves the immediate issue. However, even there, repeatedly posting off-topic content and deleting it later still seems like disruptive behavior that a staff member might want to be aware of.