# Flag reason/s

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/flag-reason-s/244417>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 4, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flag-reason-s/244417 "2022-11-04T19:35:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![tshenry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tshenry/32/119495_2.png) [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 2:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/flag-reason-s/244417/4 "2022-11-10T02:26:37Z")

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Can you confirm what it is you are trying to do?

Below we see a set of `flag_reasons`:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-11-09 at 5.39.45 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/b/8/1b8d207ac8c19c2d2b85b0d6ef95e347be0ed6a0.png)

These all relate to the various flag options:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-11-09 at 5.46.24 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/a/0/9a0426a581e7649fbd05596c3dc323a892166aed.png)

The `flag_reasons.<some_reason>` strings make up part of the message that is sent to a user to let them know that their post was flagged/removed.

The `flag_reasons.responder.<some_reason>` makes up part of the message that is sent to users **who responded** to a flagged post that was removed. This feature was introduced in [FEATURE: Notify responders of post removal by janzenisaac · Pull Request #15049 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/15049) and is default disabled. It can be enabled via the `notify_users_after_responses_deleted_on_flagged_post` site setting.

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There are also a couple of `flag_reason` (no `s`) strings:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-11-09 at 5.40.41 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/d/6/6d626a9b43cc95c22079906f94c3ad4ad406dad8.png)

These are used in the reviewable descriptions of automatically flagged posts. The text is only ever shown to admins and moderators:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-11-09 at 6.22.13 PM copy](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/2/b/82b39d0450d0a6bc50eef2694f97179ae9e097b6.png)

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