Reporting/flagging posts

It would appear the “flagging of posts” system is being abused a fair bit, at the moment.

I have to agree, I had a flag attached to a post yesterday despite not a single abusive comment or critism of anything. My post was an observation, thoughts about an increasingly cashless society and how it will impact criminality, particularly Drug Trafficking.

There seems no right of reply albeit I do appreciate there may be a backlog on MODS reviewing these flagged posts. I further noticed I'm not alone on this particular thread, it seems the person who is somehow offended has flagged pretty much every single post, most perfectly reasonable observations.

And now to add insult to injury, 13 flags have just been added to previous posts I made on the live line thread, what is going on here? I find it hard to believe someone or persons had their morning coffee and decided to trawl through an entire thread to flag previous posts?????

Good morning, I appreciate how busy you are but need to ask what is going on with this Flag issue, is it a systems issue?

I've gone from Zero Flags at 7am this morning and I'm up to nearly 70 now.

What is extraordinary is the fact these new flags are for posts as far back as April, some are for posts we're I'm actually thanking others or seeking advice. I initially thought someone was being Malicious but I find it hard to believe a user, sitting on their computer, trawling through 100"s of posts I've done and flagging them. Perhaps the new system has gone haywire but each of these flags needs reviewing, at this rate I'll have lost all points gained by the end of the day.

This is extremely concerning and somewhat disturbing.

Thank you.

I'm unsure what the points mean but I presume it will go towards increasing your level.

Yes, I agree, I think the system is having a melt down, I'm now up to 80 and bizzarely for posts dating back to 2012, we're I was thanking someone.

Just extraordinary

I doubt too many will be able to explain much as nothing about the new system seems to make much sense. Everything is all over the place, for me anyway. And I don’t even see what points I might have though I also haven’t looked too much. Nothing about Boards is fun at the moment, it’s just frustratingly hard to manipulate.

You've 2 posts, this your 2nd and advising me to relax, very helpful and welcome to Boards

Its definitely a systems meltdown , I just hope mods can find away to un flag

Morning, do you mean how to stop flagging, I didn't think this would be ever an option or are you referring to notifications? I don't get them as I switched that off along time ago because of a seperate issue

Wow, yes, looks like the Abuse button removed from my dashboard, Gosh, so it was a malicious attack, this is extraordinary. I wonder will they be able to return lost points?

Any idea as to what caused it? Site error or people abusing the flag function?

And thanks for helping resolving it. Do you think Points will be reset, not the most pressing of things but this attack or whatever it was wiped lots of points off my account

It’s great the, unfounded, reports are gone from our “profiles” but it’s a shame they still take away from the users “points” total.

You need serious help, disgraceful and childish behaviour

Is there a "report" function as well?

I can only see the Flag icon.

The report function is under the flag button.

Why have one click when you have two??? 🙄

There was one other benefit of the flagging system: it (at least from our perspective) seemed anonymous. No worries about getting reprisal from the mods of the forum if you submitted a full report which they disagreed with. Although it also came with the nuisance that you couldn't flag a mod's post anywhere on the site (even outside their modded forums), even if their post deserved one...

As for number of flags, I believe a default Vanilla install only sends a notification to the mods at 5 flags, and removes a comment entirely for manual approval at 10.