# How to flag for reopening?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [2016年四月8日 15:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247 "2016-04-08T15:45:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)
#### Post date: [2016年四月8日 15:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247/1 "2016-04-08T15:45:59Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Autobiographer badge issue update](https://meta.discourse.org/t/autobiographer-badge-issue-update/42234/2):
> [@sam](#):
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> Please don’t open dupes flag original for reopening
Just wondering: how would one do that? There is no such flag yet, though I can imagine it would be useful. I suppose you would use the ‘other’ flag and state a reason?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2016年四月8日 16:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247/2 "2016-04-08T16:00:46Z")
Click the flag icon below the post and ask **moderators** to re-open it.
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### Author:  [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)
#### Post date: [2016年四月8日 16:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247/3 "2016-04-08T16:11:00Z")
That’s interesting, as you know I had a similar need a few days ago with the topic about group members count. Should one use the “Other” flag option? Without an indication that this behavior is possible or even the recommended way, it’s difficult for users to adopt it.
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### Author:  [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)
#### Post date: [2016年四月8日 20:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247/4 "2016-04-08T20:25:29Z")
That’s my point as well. I can understand what @zogstrip says, that you would need to choose **other** , but that’s not intuitive.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [2016年四月8日 20:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247/5 "2016-04-08T20:39:51Z")
Well, the current copy is
> Something Else
> This post requires staff attention for another reason not listed above.
Seems to me the meaning of “another reason” is clear enough.
But I may be too used to the feature and am missing something.
I guess it could read more explicitly, but it would likely become TL;DR if _every_ “another reason” was listed.
How would you propose making it more intuitive? “yet another button”?
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### Author:  [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)
#### Post date: [2016年四月8日 21:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247/6 "2016-04-08T21:07:42Z")
True, but the reasons above are all about negative impacts. It makes
me feel (as a user) the whole flagging thing is for bad stuff. Not just to
alert the mod ‘hey please, reopen the topic’.
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [2016年四月9日 17:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247/7 "2016-04-09T17:27:01Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
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> Click the flag icon below the post and ask moderators to re-open it.
Too bad that can’t be done a second time.. I had flagged topic 27636 once, then needed to flag it for reopening again, but can’t.
> [@Newly approved members remain visible after approval](https://meta.discourse.org/t/newly-approved-members-remain-visible-after-approval/27636):
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> Repro: Get notified of a pending member visit the admin page at /admin/users/list/pending click the checkbox next to the new person click Approve at the bottom of the screen dismiss the congratulatory dialog box View that the user is still listed. Expected: that the account is no longer visible refresh the page and the user will no longer be listed (as the approval was carried out successfully) Bonus points for providing a link to /admin/users/list/new so the new user(s) can be reviewed
(the issue raised in that topic still exists today)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年四月10日 23:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247/8 "2016-04-10T23:52:08Z")
> [@watchmanmonitor](#):
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> I had flagged topic 27636 once, then needed to flag it for reopening again, but can’t.
Fair problem, workarounds are
1. Reply to the original PM discussing the flag
2. Flag a different post in the topic
3. Send @sam a PM
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年四月10日 23:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-flag-for-reopening/42247/9 "2016-04-10T23:55:57Z")
> [@Sander78](#):
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> Not just toalert the mod ‘hey please, reopen the topic’.
We have discussed in the past adding “custom” flag reasons to the dialog, this may be a candidate for it.
Additionally, it’s possible that:
1. This is not a big enough issue to worry about
2. We can make a plugin that adds a “please reopen the bug” button at the bottom of closed bug topics
3. We possibly can allow “categories” to have a “custom closed canned text” so when we close “bugs” it displays: "This bug has been closed, if you find it is still an issue on latest versions of Discourse flag this topic with ‘other..’ and tell us why.