Vicious flagging/editing cycle

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A problem with the way community flagging works as previously described…

While a moderator isn’t around, watching like a hawk, this causes a two-part problem:

  1. A user can do the bare minimum of editing by adding/removing a couple words to get his (completely unacceptable) post unhidden.

  2. The users who flagged the comment, now can’t re-flag the slightly-edited comment because they flagged the original version and their “undo flag” option is now gone.

You may not have enough TL1+ users on a low-traffic topic to again hide the unacceptable comment, and it stays up (i.e. all weekend, with angry users responding) until an editor comes in to take a look.

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Part 2 there seems like a bug. There was never the intention that once you flag something you can never flag it again. Can you have a look @neil?

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I had a look at fixing that, and it’s tricky. The current code re-uses the logic for disagreeing with a flag, which prevents those people from flagging the same post again. I fix.

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While @neil is working on this I wanted to add that a user who makes bad faith flagged post edits should almost certainly be suspended, or at the very least given a serious warning PM.

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Did we fix this? It’s a problem if people cannot re flag edited content that was previously flagged to threshold.

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I just pushed the fix. People will be able to flag again after a post is unhidden.

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