# Understanding post flags in Discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275
**Category:** Using Discourse
**Tags:** moderation, reference
**Created:** [February 5, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275 "2013-02-05T21:28:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@VSCPlays](https://meta.discourse.org/u/VSCPlays)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/43 "2023-04-01T17:17:02Z")
I mean the private message when somebody else flags someone’s post
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/44 "2023-04-01T17:18:14Z")
that message doesn’t say who flagged the post by design. why would you want flagged posters to know who flagged them? there are more than one email message associated with flags btw.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/45 "2023-04-01T17:20:35Z")
are you a user who was flagged and wants to know who flagged you? if so, that isn’t going to happen unless the flagger or the mods tell you themselves.
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### Author:  [@VSCPlays](https://meta.discourse.org/u/VSCPlays)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/46 "2023-04-01T18:16:41Z")
yes, it always happen in the [devforums](https://devforum.roblox.com), and I want to know who did it so I can ask them
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### Author:  [@not-ethan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/not-ethan)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/47 "2023-04-01T18:17:23Z")
That won’t be happening. You are lucky if the mod answers questions.
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/48 "2023-04-01T18:32:02Z")
fyi this isn’t a roblox support forum. this is site dedicated to Discourse forum software.
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### Author:  [@asc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/asc)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/49 "2023-04-02T22:30:41Z")
How does editing a flagged post intersect with the site setting for minimum trust level to edit? For example, if the admin site setting requires tl2 or the post is flagged after the editing window has closed, does a tl1 still get to edit their flagged post? And if not, what’s the text that needs to be customized to correctly reflect that the user can’t edit their flagged post? I checked for flagging.user\_must\_edit and flagging.you\_must\_edit and those direct the user to a message I can’t find the key for.
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### Author:  [@asc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/asc)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/50 "2023-04-03T12:55:11Z")
I found the message to edit in system\_messages.post\_hidden.text\_body\_template, but it would still be helpful to know if having a post flagged will override the admin edit site settings.
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### Author:  [@Stefan\_P](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan_P)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/51 "2024-04-23T22:39:05Z")
Please fix the text _“the community feels”_ in that _“friendly private message”_. Two or three users feeling that way does **not** mean **the community** feels that way. It means two or three users feel that way. I suggest _“some in the community feel”_.
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### Author:  [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/52 "2024-04-23T23:19:48Z")
Hi Stefan, welcome to Meta! 👋
Do you mean the flag messages? That’s a valid point 🤔.
If you want to adjust some texts, you can always follow this guide 👍 :
> [@Customize text in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-text-in-discourse/36092):
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> bookmark This is a guide for customizing text in Discourse via the admin interface, enabling changes to various UI elements. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator In Discourse, you can customize all of the text via the admin interface. This can be useful for tailoring the user experience to better fit the particular tone or branding of your community. Summary This guide will cover: Accessing the text customization interface Editing text strings Identifying translatio…
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### Author:  [@Stefan\_P](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan_P)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/53 "2024-04-24T00:05:33Z")
> [@Arkshine](#):
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> Do you mean the flag messages? That’s a valid point 🤔.
>
> If you want to adjust some texts, you can always follow this guide 👍 :
I mean the _“friendly private message”_ shown as screenshot in the first post of this topic.
I got a similar message with the same wrong phrase in another forum. I’m just an ordinary user, so I can’t adjust the text, but I complained about it there as well.
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### Author:  [@jenmck](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jenmck)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 3:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/54 "2024-04-24T03:08:50Z")
> [@Stefan\_P](#):
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> Please fix the text _“the community feels”_ in that _“friendly private message”_.
fwiw, users on the forum where I admin gave similar feedback, so you’re not alone!
Since I have the ability, I went ahead and adjusted the text on our forum, but to be honest the menu for replacing text is pretty overwhelming and I wasn’t entirely sure I was replacing everywhere it is used. That’s a different topic though!
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### Author:  [@poscat0x04](https://meta.discourse.org/u/poscat0x04)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 6:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/55 "2024-04-30T06:09:55Z")
Can the auto hidden feature be disabled?
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 7:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/56 "2024-04-30T07:25:42Z")
Changing the `hide post sensitivity` site setting to disabled would stop posts getting hidden.
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### Author:  [@Overgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Overgrow)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/62 "2025-02-15T18:15:23Z")
It seems like the message is automatically sent to the flag author when the flag is rejected or ignored.
> Thanks for letting us know. We’re looking into it.
What I’m missing is the ability to quickly start a PM regarding the flag with the flag author about clarifying things before actually taking any action.
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### Author:  [@hendersj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hendersj)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-post-flags-in-discourse/275/63 "2026-01-17T19:17:08Z")
One question that has come up in the admins team of a forum I help admin is whether the notification to the user whose post was flagged (after action is taken) can have the moderators group added to it (the message is sent to admins and the user whose post was flagged).
We have several different languages represented in our forums, and our admins don’t speak all of those languages, so letting the moderators of those groups help facilitate those conversations would be really helpful. I’m not finding a config option to set that, though.
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