# Flag Immunity for Pinned or Leader topics?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/flag-immunity-for-pinned-or-leader-topics/41264>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2016年三月18日 13:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flag-immunity-for-pinned-or-leader-topics/41264 "2016-03-18T13:49:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2016年三月18日 22:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flag-immunity-for-pinned-or-leader-topics/41264/2 "2016-03-18T22:56:19Z")

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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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