[image] Flagging a post for moderator attention By default, clicking the flag button will present a user with the following options: Message It’s Off-Topic It’s Inappropriate It’s Spam Something Else …and that’s how I know it from most forums, but on MetaBrainz’ Discourse the message and som…

[image] anon61128213: a moderator confirmed he doesn’t. I’m the moderator in question, and I am in fact not just a moderator, but the main admin of the site, if that makes any difference. @codinghorror What CSS would I be looking for? Another option maybe: we have user-to-user messaging tur…

There is no way to change that, as far as I know, other than CSS hiding the options.

So if the admins didn’t do this intentionally this is probably an error caused by some other CSS customization they did?

Aha, good catch. With PMs disabled that would indeed remove the user to user PM and the user to staff PM options from the flag dialog.

Well, I guess that’s one mystery solved then. Thanks @codinghorror !

I would find it useful to hide the Off-topic reason for flagging. (We sort of have a happy-go-lucky style of posting in our community, and off-topic posts are the norm.)

@Rahim123 This should be resolvable through custom CSS. I’d expect something like the following should work fine; .controls.off_topic { display: none !important; }

How to set which options are available for flagging?

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rahim123 October 12, 2022, 9:33pm 10

Nice, thanks very much!

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