# Dealing with a disruptive post with many likes?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/dealing-with-a-disruptive-post-with-many-likes/63469>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Tags:** moderation\
**Created:** [27 Maggio 2017, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dealing-with-a-disruptive-post-with-many-likes/63469 "2017-05-27T09:09:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fredo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Fredo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fredo)\
**Post date:** [27 Maggio 2017, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dealing-with-a-disruptive-post-with-many-likes/63469/1 "2017-05-27T09:09:45Z")

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Sometimes a post expresses opinions that clearly disrupt the forum peace and violate rules. In that case, one would flag that post.

If that post however receives a significant amount of likes, the likers commit support for this rule break. I think flagging the author’s post alone is not enough of an action, and it would go unnoticed by the likers. If a moderator removes the flagged post, the mindset behind the post and its likes remains still tolerable behavior in the community.

How do moderators see that a flag is about not only about a post’s content but also about its likes? What should be done in such a case?

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