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

[ted (Ted Johansson)]

@mcwumbly

We’ve been discussing some of the details about a possible change here’s what we’re currently planning to do:

1. Continue to show “This post was flagged by the community and is temporarily hidden” to everyone while a post is in this state.
2. Only provide the “View ignored content” option to the following users:
   • Author of the flagged post
   • Staff (admins, moderators, category moderators)
   • TL4 users

Should others who flagged the post be able to see the original content when it’s in this state? We originally were thinking “yes”, but have left that out above as we don’t see a strong reason to allow them to continue to see it once it’s been hidden.

As of this change we have changed the behaviour as described by @mcwumbly above, and regular users (including the flaggers themselves) will no longer be able to expand the ignored content. This is the new baseline behaviour, and doesn’t require any additional setup.

We didn’t include the ability to configure whether TL4 users should be able to as part of this change to keep the scope manageable. By default TL4 users can still expand the hidden content.