is flagging still relevant in 2024?
or has it lost focus?
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Iām not sure who needs to hear this, but a reply being flagged isnāt a warning to the poster.
Youāre not given āone more chanceā. You can get flagged again and it will not have consequence for you.
Itās simply a āi think this post might not contribute in a positive/meaningful wayā
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Says who ?
You mean this ?
Then I think what was meant was
- in the opinion of the flagger
- if mods take supporting action, in the opinion of the mods
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I suspect somebody just did.
Imo one of the cool things on Elektronauts is even though a post might get flagged you can still see it if you click on it. That makes the flagged content even more exciting for me. 
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yea i like that too 
spicy stuff
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how many people here actually have seen the flagged content to put it in context?
edit: my original post in this thread has been flagged 
which is a another good example of freely being able to abuse the flagging option.
I havenāt read much of the thread but came here to second that. Itās a great community and the mods are doing an incredible job, and so does the community with flagging, overall. Sarcasm and irony can be a bit hard to decipher over the internet and sometimes itās just out of place. So Iām fine if things sometimes get flagged too early rather than having a lot of sarcastic comments on here that turn people off.
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There was a flagged reply here that i looked at to see why it was flagged. Is that what you meant? Or did you mean see before it was flagged?
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i meant the post in the memes thread by the OP of this thread that lead to all this.
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cāmon we know that will just end up getting flagged 
If the moderators see abuse we reject/warn/suspend in that order
Thereās an anonymity topic, so no need to flog that dead horse here. Anonymity wonāt change, itās not something that discourse would ever support imho anyway and thereās no prospect weād find it helpful. The only people it benefits are the aggrieved.
Posts being hidden as opposed to deleted for the egregious stuff is also a clue that a post shouldnāt be replied to. Especially to question its validity.
The vast majority flag in good faith and with a sense of being helpful and supportive, we donāt read or exactly understand every concern but there are scores of trusted people whose judgement we can safely trust (or reject).
Itās a time drain, especially when it kicks off, so the heads-up pre-emptive flags and interventions are also helpful to prevent a bigger problem for what might be one admin logged in.
One other factor the system warns about is ignored users and that there could be trouble brewing in the community, that metric is somewhat correlated with the non-flaggers and the oft-flagged. Go figure. Like it or not, the community is weighted towards the less vocal majority, the broadest pool of contributors is a healthy goal. That obviously means that if you are on either extreme of preference, you will need to compromise and temper your unique expectations or wants of the shared community space for its greater good.
The general consensus is that Elektronauts is a healthy active space, that has taken a lot of time to steer this way such that it hopefully now needs less intervention
A recap; somebodyās post with a Jeffrey Dahmer meme was surprised a trustworthy member of the community flagged it for us. I think we are fine as we are, flagging works. Itās mostly, In my experience, that judgement or humility is lacking when people are aggrieved about being flagged.
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Have you noticed a pattern in flagging? IE. When a new product is launched flagging increases. Or is it random.
Sorry, not keen on sinking time in the topic, i nearly notated my post about direct questions ā¦ flagging is related to heat/expectation/clickbait ā¦ hot topics bring hot opinions
I moved and rephrased this topic to avoid it being hotter than it needed
There are many helpful people using the system as itās intended, we canāt be here 24/7
Nothing will please everyone, this system allows us the chance to have a life, otherwise, as alluded to above, a forum can go to pot. A topic on flagging is one of those hot topics i dread because it dog-whistles the already aggrieved
It is what it is, is the best way to leave this imho
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I wouldnāt have the patience to do what you do. Fair play.
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Completely understand how ignored users might correlate with oft-flagged users.
Iām not getting (Iām probably missing the obvious) what youāre saying about a correlation between between ignored users and non-flaggers ? Oh hold on ā¦ do you mean the non-flaggers tend to use ignore instead of flagging ?
EDIT: Now Iām even more confused, I canāt see an ignore option.
Iām stating that the community is expressing their opinion on who they wish to hear from. There are few surprises, itās mostly the people who get flagged and have an issue with flags or flagging the most who appear in this summary.
Basically outliers from the majority, the system is warning of trouble brewing, but itās basically like teaching your gran to suck eggs, itās already obvious in admin. Itās the rowdy kid at the back of the class throwing chewing gum at folk wondering why they are getting ignored, bad marks and attention from teacher. Outliers can and have adapted, some donāt want to or canāt. Itās a lazy example, but thereās a serious message in that thought. I e. Try to fit in with the majority, there is bandwidth for ācharactersā, itās a balancing act.
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