[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?

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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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) March 17, 2018, 11:01pm 5

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.

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