Faced something logical yet annoying with flags and user level

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Pad_Pors is experiencing an issue with flags and user levels. When an admin locks a TL1 user’s trust level to 0, requiring post approval, and the user’s old posts receive flags, the admin cannot agree with the flags due to a 422 error. This is because the user’s posts contain multiple links, exceeding the limits of their current trust level. The error message indicates that only users with a trust level of 1 or higher can post multiple links. Pad_Pors suggests that there should be an error in the process of downgrading a user’s trust level, but not when accepting flags.

consider this case:

  1. a tl1 user, has posted replies with several links therein.

  2. based on the user action, admin decided to lock his trust level to 0, so that all his posts need approval.

  3. afterwards, the users old posts get reasonable flags. admin wants to agree with flags but he can’t, getting this error 422 error.

  4. the flags can be agreed only if the user tl is back to 1, since the posts has several links in it (and that’s beyond the limits of the user!)


I can understand why this is happening. there should be an error somewhere in the process of downgrading a user trust-level, but not for accepting the flags (as it was so confusing for mods why the system doesn’t allow them to apply flags!).

the full error record in the admin panel

the full error record:

ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid (اعتبار‌سنجی با خطا مواجه شد: متأسفیم، کاربران تازه تنها می‌توانند در هر نوشته 2 پیوند بگذارند.)
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/activerecord-6.0.3/lib/active_record/validations.rb:80:in `raise_validation_error'

and this one:

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