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

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**Category:** UX\
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**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 21, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-persistence-of-posts-hidden-by-flags-are-a-bane-to-our-community/109969/24 "2023-02-21T13:04:19Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> How would you feel about having these auto-hidden-due-to-threshold posts hidden to non-moderators and non-flaggers? (leaving it visible as stubs to people who originally flagged and mods)

That sounds good to me, thanks Sam for looking into this.

I was wondering about the web crawlers, will they see a hidden post with just a “hidden” message the way a human would with a normal browser, or would they also see and index the potentially inappropriate content that is hidden with CSS?

Another related issue is the post revision history, I know it could be disabled for normal users, but some users do like and use the feature for normal edits of inoffensive posts. A user actually suggested that it would be good to hide the revision history button on posts that have a flag hit on them. Otherwise users can (and will) go back and see the original offensive post.

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