Hopefully, this will help less prolific flaggers learn to use the system correctly without repeatedly wasting their time and that of the site moderators. However, these are listed on the flag summary page that's linked to from the warnings, so for now we'll include them and see how it plays out in practice. I'm not 100% on the value of including close flags in this: we spot-tested these criteria with and without them at various times, and the downside to including them is that they can end up making some folks' flagging histories look better than they appear to the moderators. and will be unable to flag any further posts for any reason.įolks who've flagged fewer than 10 posts in the past week whose most recently-processed flag was declined will see:įlags considered for the purpose of these warnings / bans are currently limited to post flags which often require explicit moderator intervention: Other, Spam, Offensive, Very Low Quality, Invalid Flag, Close and Not an Answer. Those who've had 25% or more of their flags declined will see: Flaggers with a recent (past 7 days) flagging history consisting of at least 10 handled flags where >= 10% of flags were declined will see the following when they flag: Kevin has implemented (more or less) the system described below. The hell-ban is no more! Long live the verbose, obnoxiously evident ban! This allows good users who get hellbanned because of a bad streak to come back from it. Once the user reaches a certain threshold (perhaps related to measurments that trip the hellban) of "helpful" flags, and at least 2/3 of their hellbanned flags are "helpful", the ban ends.If another user flags the same post (and that flag is marked helpful), or if the post is deleted, the flag counts as "helpful" (not actually marked helpful until the user is unbanned). User must have more helpful flags than declined flags (perhaps somewhere in the 1.5:1 to 3:1 range?).I suggest allowing users to recover from this ban in the following way: Subsequently, their future flags are never reviewed, despite the likelihood of being helpful. Users can enter this hellban even if they have many more helpful flags than declined flags. Since your flags now go into the void, you can't get any of them marked helpful via any means. To recover, you'd need to gain flag weight, and to gain flag weight you need someone to handle your flags. I've asked around before and it doesn't look like recovery is possible. Currently, users can get stuck in a permanent flag hellban from which there is no recovery.
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