Look at the post directly above the one you quoted and you would have your answer.
There I did it for you @DeaconElie Now you can see exactly what @CodeMage was referring to just mere inches away from where you quoted him from.
OK, lets see.
Here is one example.
Here is another, not that I should have had to point that one out since it was you who said that after all. But you get my point.
However, none of this will matter one iota will it because you have clearly dug yourself into this that is has become a sunk-cost fallacy at this point. You are so entrenched and have devoted so much time and effort into this that to admit otherwise now would prove to costly to you, so you will just carry on regardless of any facts or data.
Agreed, I even get messages people agreeing with me on forums but due to the majority of the “gang” I get flag. It is easy to tell when topics dont get sensor and hidden as well.
Ya, I’ll give you that. I was reading it as one person and one account.
My point there was it wasn’t what I said but how I said it. What I said in and of itself was not a violation. I can see flagging some one for what they said, not sure why you would flag some one for how they said it.
If I have a post hidden, then rewrite what I said with a few more layers of sugar and it stay unhinden. Then it wasn’t what was said., was it?
I know I have said this before, I get flagged a lot, and pretty much for the same reason. I don’t dispute them. Never asked that they be unhidden. Only changed posts as an experiment. Why? Because the person flagging me isn’t in the wrong that it is some rules violation, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree my post rose to the level of needing to be flagged.
My point is people are more inclined to flag posts they find offensive not ones the violate rules. So some one like myself that tends to be abrasive catch these people attention more then say bickering, off topic posts, responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content, knee-jerk contradictions…
I’m not going to flame posts like those above. I simply think @CodeMage’s original post wasn’t thought out well enough to avoid these sticky situations. It doesn’t present a conclusion to agree or disagree. Thus, the discussion digresses into one. Thanks for being here and trying to be understanding.
It’s not that people are claiming to be a victim, as it is the software not being smart enough to prevent victimizing. We adapt. AI adapts. Are we even on the same page? (Can it tell frivolous entries? )
P.S. OT? okay… this is my last post to this thread. Back to the game.
I thought we already agreed the world sucks and cannot be changed. Why dwell on it?
I’ve asked several times for a solution and none were given, by anyone. Which leads us to believe that there is no solution and this is just how the world is. The sun will continue to rise and water is wet.
I’m not sure… seeing as we’re in a thread called “An explanation of the forum flagging system”, you could always read the opening post to learn why people might flag things.
Was it relevant to this thread for example? Like… was it a video explaining how the flagging system works in Discourse? Because that’s the current topic.
I managed to see it before it was flagged. It was an edit of the MGS4 “war has changed” speech, and the text in the post was something along the lines of “here’s how I feel about the situation” with a couple of emojis.
I can only speculate that whoever flagged it didn’t feel it added much to the discussion, but I don’t really know the real reason why.
Personally, I took it as a bit of humor. If it wasn’t, if it was meant seriously, then it was a delicious bit of unintentional irony
I’m willing to wager there is quite a few forum members who likely don’t post often but have been around for a while, and many of them give their feedback either through likes, or flags.
I assume that simply because of how many likes I get from people I have never seen post before. So if they like but don’t post, maybe they flag and don’t post too? This is going to sound weird, but the amount of likes that spam my notifications cause me just a tad more annoyance (from volume) than flags do. I get maybe 1-2 flags a week tops, but about a dozen or so likes a day lol.
You can turn that off in the site preferences so you don’t get notifications for likes
Yes, there should really be a special “You didn’t lose your patience even thou you definitely had every reason to” forum badge to award in these scenarios
I need one of those. I have issues remaining civil when I’m frustrated. Don’t think the readers here realize the amount of restraint it has taken to keep my self civil. Or the number of posts I self censored.
Maybe it is just me, I don’t; on average, get flagged twice a month. And I do get more likes then flags.
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