What if they made it to where flagging only did what the name implies: flagging a post for moderator review? Meaning flagging posts would no longer hide them nor automatically ban someone if they receive enough. I feel part of the reason some people flag posts is to hide them and try to silence or ‘hide’ an opinion. But if the only thing flagging a post did was get a moderator’s attention, then that would solve some of the issue with false flagging. Because if someone knows the flagging will amount to nothing in the end they won’t do it instead of people using it like a glorified downvote button.
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I def agree. This is why I want downvotes back but apparently that’s technically challenging
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To my knowledge, flags do not automatically ban anyone. It simply hides them and mods can choose to override. Does anyone evidence to the contrary?
While it is abused I agree, I dont think it’s really that big of a deal.
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If your post gets hidden a moderator reviews it.
It’s been problematic as of late. Someone discovered that a bunch of alts can suppress conversation. Honestly I’m surprised it took this long to reach this point
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Actually, someone discovered that last year and it was huge problem until it went away for a bit. Now in this last week false flagging has became a huge issue again
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Honestly, false flagging should just result in a harsher ban, and even harsher bans if the alt accounts bypass the ban. I believe the mods have the logs to see whos flagging what.
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yes, I truly believe nobody should have their post hidden until it gets 10+ reports or a moderator review it
Last year there was a person with 5-6 accounts who would mass flag everyone who disagreed with him and would like all his own posts.
though the problem is, console have the option to make infinite accounts for free and link them to a battle net 
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Yes it should be changed.
Some people flag what they don’t like or it “hurts their feelings”. Even though it doesn’t go against Blizzard’s Code of Conduct.
And this person used 28 accounts, all with no forum presence, to boost their own likes 
go outside
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I feel like both up votes and down votes are kinda iffy too, since people just sorta jump on a bandwagon. Why do things need to be liked and disliked? Just have a discussion and leave the silly hearts out of it.
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What does mass liking self posts do exactly? I don’t see the point.
Downvote system can cause a lot of corruption because there’s many ways to exploit that.
(multiple accounts/friends etc)
Give the trust level three posters “stronger” flags and severely decrease how impactful new accounts/low trust levels are when flagging. Should stop the alt mass flagging immediately.
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I was just showing an example of someone who had 5+ acct that used to mass flag people
Let’s get back to when hong kong was the hot topic.
Tons of people spamming and littering the forums, those automatic suspensions did help out quite a lot then.
General trolls usually do become active for a few hours filling up the forums quite a bit, i don’t think it should be changed.
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around here, people won’t be flagging as much because those people flag others who disagree with them. so a downvote option would be better, hell make the downvotes not visible to others besides the commenter
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The only things that should be hidden are posts that break the ToS. They do love their automated systems though, no employee to pay.
Stronger flags for trust lvl 3 eh? I like that idea 
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