# Vorschlag: Flaggen-Bereinigung durch Autor-Edit-to-Zero, d.h. Beitrag löschen

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-flag-clearing-by-author-edit-to-zero-i-e-delete-post/88690>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [29. Mai 2018 um 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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**Author:** ![wolftune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/wolftune/32/103569_2.png) [@wolftune](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wolftune)\
**Post date:** [29. Mai 2018 um 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")

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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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