# The persistence of posts hidden by flags are a bane to our community

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-persistence-of-posts-hidden-by-flags-are-a-bane-to-our-community/109969>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [February 24, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-persistence-of-posts-hidden-by-flags-are-a-bane-to-our-community/109969 "2019-02-24T22:05:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahim123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-persistence-of-posts-hidden-by-flags-are-a-bane-to-our-community/109969/15 "2023-02-20T12:55:24Z")

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I also agree with other users here that hidden posts should be completely hidden from normal viewers. Users get fixated on a lively argument, or if a post has inappropriate content even more so, and they’ll take advantage of any UI that is offered to view it. Try putting a physical big red button with a “ **Do not push!** ” sign in a public space and it will probably get more pushes than if you change the sign to “Please push me”.

> [@Stranik](#):
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> A css tag (post-hidden) is added to the hidden post

Thanks for this very helpful tidbit. I took it a step further to completely hide the entire hidden post for normal viewers while making it still visible in a faded color for staff. But I’m not very good at CSS, will this have any unintended consequences that haven’t occurred to me?

```plaintext
body:not(.staff) {
    .post-hidden {
        display: none !important;
    }
}
```

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