# Warn users without affecting their flag count

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/warn-users-without-affecting-their-flag-count/16967>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 28, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warn-users-without-affecting-their-flag-count/16967 "2014-06-28T19:30:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![hunterboerner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hunterboerner/32/114646_2.png) [@hunterboerner](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hunterboerner)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warn-users-without-affecting-their-flag-count/16967/1 "2014-06-28T19:30:19Z")

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Say a user posts something like

> I love this idea. I think it would be great to see.

I don’t want that user to be punished by affecting his/her flag count but I want to be able to easily give the user an infraction saying please use the heart instead of responding. I’ve gotten stuff like this a few times on other forums from mods with similar things like “post in a different section for that”.

Maybe just have a “minor” flag level for things like this?

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