Just a nice-to-have: The discobot tutorial should actually write something bad like “Bots are better than you lousy humans”, then after the flagging, the original should actually get edited and change as part of removing the flag.
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A request has been made to improve the Discobot tutorial by having it edit its post after being flagged, to better demonstrate the flow of flagging and moderation. wolftune suggests that the bot could post a provocative message, which would then be edited after being flagged. sam expands on this idea, outlining a step-by-step process for the tutorial.
However, the discussion is sidetracked by a separate issue with flagged topics. John_Lehmann describes a problem where moderators are unable to access flagged topics, and suspects that users are flagging PMs with Discobot. codinghorror suggests that the issue is likely due to users flagging incorrectly, and John_Lehmann agrees.
codinghorror notes that there is only one flag option that would cause this issue, and tgxworld reveals that the “notify user” flag option for bot users has been disabled, and provides a link to the relevant GitHub commit.
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If we wanted to get super fancy it could demonstrate the entire flow:
- Bot says “Bots are better than humans, flag this post”
- User flags
- Post becomes hidden
- 10 seconds pass
- Post shows up again with “Bots are better than humans” edited out.
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We are experiencing confusion in flagged topics, which I believe are just users flagging the PM’s with discobot. While I think this is what’s happening, it’s still confusing to me and definitely to my moderators.
Along with:
However when clicking on the link I get the following message “Sorry, you don’t have access to that topic!”
Which I assume is because mods can’t see PM’s.
Is that what this topic is discussing?
Unlikely, what you describe sounds like users flagging incorrectly, e.g. flagging with a type of “other” instead of what discobot directs them to do, flag as “inappropriate”
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That sounds about right. It’s happened about 3 times for us in the last 300 or so users we on boarded. At least it’s pretty obvious with the “Greeting” title.
thanks
Yeah there’s only one out of four flag options which would cause that. I believe any flag type other than “other” will work for this step @tgxworld?
Odd I thought we disabled the notify user flag option for bot users at some point. I’ve fixed it in
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/63a3caa5165e4d18359228d6f447e13be97182f9
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