# 建议：作者编辑为零（即删除帖子）以清除标记
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-flag-clearing-by-author-edit-to-zero-i-e-delete-post/88690
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2018 年5 月 29 日 20:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-flag-clearing-by-author-edit-to-zero-i-e-delete-post/88690 "2018-05-29T20:09:21Z")
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### 作者：  [@wolftune](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wolftune)
#### 发布日期： [2018 年5 月 29 日 20:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-flag-clearing-by-author-edit-to-zero-i-e-delete-post/88690/1 "2018-05-29T20:09:21Z")
Scenario:
- I post something careless
- I get flagged
- I look over my post and instead of thinking “okay, I could say this much more nicely”, I think “I didn’t need to weigh in here at all really”
- I want to be the gracious, learning user who takes the flagging to heart, but the edited-post I want to see is just to delete my post.
It seems kinda weird that the only way for me to clear my flag is to post _something_ in an edit. Maybe it’s okay enough to be required to post something constructive. But I could see a case where if I then actively manually delete my own flagged post, that clears the flag at least similarly to editing and reposting.
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### 作者：  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### 发布日期： [2018 年5 月 29 日 23:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-flag-clearing-by-author-edit-to-zero-i-e-delete-post/88690/2 "2018-05-29T23:06:53Z")
Hmm. Maybe. Interestingly, this hasn’t come up even as an idea until now, but it’s not a bad one.
You could edit for flag reinstatement, and then self delete so it’s only one more step.
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### 作者：  [@wolftune](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wolftune)
#### 发布日期： [2018 年5 月 30 日 00:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-flag-clearing-by-author-edit-to-zero-i-e-delete-post/88690/3 "2018-05-30T00:06:54Z")
Yeah, that’s a fine enough workaround.
This came up when thinking about describing to flagged users what to do and my concerns about the messaging.
I realized that “you can just leave it hidden or delete it” wasn’t _quite_ a just-fine option, even though it could certainly make sense in many cases. I don’t know the portion, but it’s gotta be a decent amount (majority even?) of bad posts from good people are things that should just never have been posted (versus badly worded posts that have other valid points).