# Topics automatically closing due to flags?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-automatically-closing-due-to-flags/40275>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 28, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-automatically-closing-due-to-flags/40275 "2016-02-28T03:40:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 6:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-automatically-closing-due-to-flags/40275/6 "2016-02-29T06:28:17Z")

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> [@anon34394924](#):
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> they aren’t illegitimate flags, we just get a lot of terrible trolls trying to disrupt our community unfortunately.

~~That sounds like a contradictory statement to me 😉~~

Oops - just realized what you meant there - the users are flagging genuinely bad posts, but there’s a lot of them and a lot of flaggers.

In that case, that’s what the configurable thresholds are there for.

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