A dumb question about deleting flagged post

No, not usually.

It generally depends on the situation on what happens. Obvious inappropriate language is almost always going to be penalized, even if it was deleted/edited. If it was active long enough to be reported, that means folks saw it, and therefore moderated according to the content.

Other behaviors can be a bit more nebulous. Trolling, or otherwise being sassy, may not result in a penalty. We have some fairly strong personalities around, and while some of the tone used doesn’t always seem productive, a lot of the resulting discussion from that is almost with the same tone. In a situation where there are fairly aggressive and reactionary posts all around, that may limit the actions that are taken.

Edit: Just to note, there are a lot of accusations and derailments flying around from a fair number of people. I’m not going to point fingers, but it seems that the attacks and accusations aren’t limited to a single person.

I’m going to clean that one up and remove a bit of the back and forth, if not just lock the thread.

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