# How do you deal with flag spammers?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-deal-with-flag-spammers/166164>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [October 4, 2020, 8:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-deal-with-flag-spammers/166164 "2020-10-04T08:36:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![papyrophilia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/papyrophilia/32/161518_2.png) [@papyrophilia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/papyrophilia)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-deal-with-flag-spammers/166164/2 "2020-10-04T08:57:24Z")

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> [@Terrapop](#):
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> **We have one user who is constantly flagging many posts per day. Some flags are ok, most of them are not.**

🤔 Have you considered reaching out to this user individually via personal message to clarify the [community guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/guidelines) and/or flagging criteria?

Are there multiple miderators/admins who agree that most of the user’s flags are unsubstantiated?

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