# Make it more difficult for flags to hide a Regular's post
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 2, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040 "2020-11-02T20:01:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@aboutDavid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aboutDavid)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040/1 "2020-11-02T20:01:36Z")
(Hi, I’m new here so please tell me if I made a mistake, also I’m tired so I may not make much sense)
On a few Discourse communities, I’ve seen mass flagging against a few regulars which isn’t spam and follows the different communities’s guidelines and the posts were even restored by the different communities’s staff.
I believe this has been happening on many forums so I believe the default flag threshold for regulars should be raised as many discourse communities use the default limits.
Edit: Thanks for the edit, I can’t spell today 😆
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040/3 "2020-11-02T22:50:36Z")
> [@aboutDavid](#):
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> I’ve seen mass flagging against a few regulars
Are you staff on any of these communities? Hopefully the people abusing the flag system are being suspended or banned?
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### Author:  [@aboutDavid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aboutDavid)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040/4 "2020-11-03T02:03:52Z")
> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> Are you staff on any of these communities?
No, just a regular also none of these people are being suspended or banned 😕
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### Author:  [@code-alt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/code-alt)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040/5 "2020-11-03T02:11:19Z")
I got like three flags in a row about spam/appropriateness in one day, and they were in one day and false
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040/6 "2020-11-04T04:01:04Z")
Sorry, I am unclear. What’s the problem? What are you proposing?
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### Author:  [@javaarchive](https://meta.discourse.org/u/javaarchive)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040/7 "2020-11-04T16:46:36Z")
I think he means that there should be more flags will be required to hide a regular’s post so it doesn’t take one or two people to hide a few posts of useful information
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### Author:  [@aboutDavid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aboutDavid)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040/8 "2020-11-04T16:47:36Z")
Yes. I say regulars because:
> Regulars are the backbone of your community, the most active readers and reliable contributors over a period of months, even years. Because they’re always around, they can be further trusted to help tidy up and organize the community.
- [Understanding Discourse Trust Levels](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/)
As said above in the quote, Regulars are some of the most trusted people so they are less likely to spam/break the [community guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/guidelines).
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### Author:  [@code-alt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/code-alt)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040/9 "2020-11-04T17:48:32Z")
Ah. It takes only one flag to hide a trust level 3 post. It should take more than that to hide it. Otherwise their is someone going around just flagging every post.
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### Author:  [@RiversideRocks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RiversideRocks)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-it-more-difficult-for-flags-to-hide-a-regulars-post/169040/10 "2020-11-04T19:14:48Z")
Your best bet would be to reach out to the moderation team on the forum ask them to change some settings.