# Dismissing Akismet flags does not reduce total flags count
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismissing-akismet-flags-does-not-reduce-total-flags-count/39295
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** akismet
**Created:** [2016年二月9日 15:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismissing-akismet-flags-does-not-reduce-total-flags-count/39295 "2016-02-09T15:30:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@GaurangTandon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GaurangTandon)
#### Post date: [2016年二月9日 15:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismissing-akismet-flags-does-not-reduce-total-flags-count/39295/1 "2016-02-09T15:30:26Z")
A little bug that isn’t hurting anything.
Dismissing Akismet flags doesn’t reduce the number in the circle that displays the total number of flags.
Dismissing “Needs Approval” flags does not have the same problem.
I certainly don’t know how to replicate this bug here. Maybe, you could try yourself?
Credits to @AlbionsRefuge for the initial post! 😉
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2016年二月9日 16:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismissing-akismet-flags-does-not-reduce-total-flags-count/39295/2 "2016-02-09T16:24:47Z")
Yeah, we see this all the time on our instance.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2017年六月2日 18:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismissing-akismet-flags-does-not-reduce-total-flags-count/39295/3 "2017-06-02T18:30:19Z")
I can now longer repro this, I recall changing a lot of the flow here a few months ago, flag to reopen if still an issue.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2017年六月2日 18:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismissing-akismet-flags-does-not-reduce-total-flags-count/39295/4 "2017-06-02T18:30:22Z")