Flag Immunity for Pinned or Leader topics?

Hmm, honestly not sure what to do in that case.

  1. I don’t think a “flag immune” topic approach makes sense.
  2. You could turn up the auto-close flag threshold values in the site settings – so it takes a lot more community flags from a lot more users to auto-close a topic – as long as you’re comfortable having the higher threshold everywhere
  3. Turn off flag ability for certain users who are using flags maliciously or irresponsibly.

Option 2 is your best bet in the short term, the admins could always reset the thresholds later to normal levels. There are also a fair number of knobs here to tweak in terms of overall flags required, how many unique flagging users are required, etc.

Option 3 we always talked about but never got around to as it never became needed, but I support it. If users are flagging “wrong” and doing so intentionally, we could implement a user-level setting to get us closer to this goal, which was on our roadmap even from way back in 2013…

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