Let me Read Flagged Posts

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When did the ability to read flagged posts go away? Is it a feature we can bring back? Flagged posts are sometimes the most entertaining…

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it’s also VERY frustrating to be unable to read half a conversation. i can’t imagine very many post actually require becoming unreadable

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CD Forum Support might be a better cat

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I think more than just a feature for fun and curiosity it’s important to know what was said to be flagged. I trust the mods and think they do a good job keeping things organized and free of spam. The issue as an outside observer is we see this post has been removed but we can’t see the why behind it’s removal. If we can see what was said we would agree with the removal in 99.9% of cases.

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I strongly agree, the flags let someone know that the content may not be the best and they have the option to skip it or not. I don’t like one person being able to hide any post from everyone.

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It is my understanding that this is a Discourse level change, not a CD change.
Someone who has more time than me right now can check the Discourse forum and find the thread talking about it there.

Edit: There’s a decent chance there’s some plugin that Brandon could add to return the “view flagged content” button

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There has to be a way to make one of those sites like the reddit-tangent sites that can show deleted comments. I’m sure there’s someone smarter than me that can find a way.

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This was from another forum that uses discourse. Maybe this is the key. Trust levels for unhiding

However, there appears to be an override configuration which will re-enable users ability to view hidden posts. Previously this was set to trust level 4. We have reduced it to trust level 1 as of today. The majority of users have Trust Level 1 or higher. Therefore they should be able to unhide flagged posts.

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When enough flags are thrown, the post will be hidden giving mods the time to deal with it.

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There used to be an option that allowed users to “view hidden content”, but this option no longer appears.
flagged content used to be hidden, but viewable. Now it is impossible to view

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What exactly does this achieve other than stifle conversation about a topic?

I understand that there are times where posts should be removed by moderators (spam, unacceptable content, etc.). However, allowing users to still view flagged content with a warning that content is flagged seems like an acceptable work-around - flagged content is view-at-your-own-risk. That seems like a pretty acceptable option.

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I was just going to make a thread on this then saw it was top of the pile…

I am glad the mods and community are aware. I want to just add another community voice to “Let me read them”

Thanks @kingc95 & @Zatack7 for pointing out that this may have not been an intentional change by CD mods/admin.

I think we need to be patient here let a few mods/admin talk and cross our fingers that they respond to this thread or make an announcement of some manner.

I have no idea if discourse supports public vs dm flagging. Abuse of the flag functionality on public stuff should be very clearly communicated as an abuse of the conditions of the website (if it is, it has been a long time since I looked at the rules) (excessive flagging should not be punished in DMs, YPP, bullying and other reasons)

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To add on to this, 1 flag will not hide a post (unless a moderators/admin flags it).

I’ll look into the post that @kingc95 provided to see what our options are.

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Whilst I agree with most of that, one does have to consider that this platform is at the very least open to having non-adult-aged students on and partaking in conversation, more than likely in school. While it is acceptable on most social media platforms for such a “view at your own risk” sorta vibe, I’d be careful when a higher percentage of users comparative to other platforms are children. Especially when there is also a higher percentage comparative of interaction between age groups here. YPP is important, and because of these conditions, the definition of “acceptable content” becomes just that little more blurry.

(this is in general, I realize that recent events have not been anywhere close to concerning from a YPP standpoint.)

EDIT 1: shown in italics

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For those genuinely curious but unaware. You can copy the link to the hidden post and send it to yourself in something like slack and the original message will popup in the embedded preview.

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I was under the impression that a level 3 user flagging a post by a level 0 user will hide it.

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Just for archival purposes here are the recent incidents with lots of flagged posts:

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Ah yeah. TL3 flags will hide TL0, yes, to let the trusted community hide spam/issues from new users quickly.

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I’m considered TL regular, i recall this equivalent to 3?

Does CD have an option for what @EricH has above, where multiple TL3s can flag? I have seen multiple posts where i cannot add a flag if that is the case.

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Using this knowledge…

(requires selenium) - fetch-hidden.py

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import FirefoxOptions
import sys
import re

def getHiddenTextForDirectLink(url: str) -> str:
    opts = FirefoxOptions()
    opts.add_argument("--headless")
    browser = webdriver.Firefox(options=opts)
    browser.get(url)
    s = 'meta property="og:description" content=".*">'
    print([re.sub('">', '', y) for y in [re.sub('meta property="og:description" content="', '', x) for x in re.findall(s, browser.page_source)]][0])

    

if not len(sys.argv) > 1:
    print("Usage: python3 fetch-hidden.py <chief-delphi-url>")
    sys.exit()

getHiddenTextForDirectLink(sys.argv[1])

you can just direct-link anything as an argument and it will fetch the hidden text, using the same method slack/others who show previews does.

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