I created another user account to understand how the reporting system works, but as an admin, I don’t receive any notifications about flagged posts. Am I overlooking something, or is no information provided? Review is empty [image]

Yes the ID is the problem, but hopefully it will be changed [image] How do you manage flags on non-human posts? Community Thanks for flagging this, @Moin . IMO, flagged system posts should be added to the review queue like any others, so I think that’s a change…

I think you should see the flagged post in the review queue. You should also be notified when a post is flagged. [Screenshot_20250912_115610_Firefox] Is there anything special about the user you flagged? As the admin, can you see the red number next to the flag icon below the post you flagged? […

I created a test user and had them flag one of my posts. Unfortunately, I don’t receive any notification, so it seems to be a placebo. I then created a second test user and had them flag a post from the first test user, and now it works.

For me it also works to flag my admin account as a test user. But I know I had similar problems when I tried to flag the system user and AI bots. Is there anything special about your admin account? Like a user-ID below 1?

@tobiaseigen I guess I am getting you wrong. To me, the new title you chose reads like admins with a negative user ID won’t receive notifications about flags. But the issue in this topic is that no one can see flags on posts written by a user with a negative ID. So the admin who started the forum (…

Oh, I got it backwards! :upside_down_face: Can you fix the title so it makes sense to you?

Where can I see flagged posts authored by users with negative user IDs?

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I think I’ve found the “error.” I reported an amount from the system that has the ID -1. Maybe that’s why the system isn’t displaying any flags.

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Where can I see flagged posts authored by users with negative user IDs?

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