The mods are extremely biased and frequently allow posts that openly violate CoC to remain. If for some reason they don’t like what you post, even if it does not violate CoC in any way, they will let mob rule win out and use the all encompassing power of the vague “trolling” accusation as reasoning for your suspension.
Yea they overturned one for me also. Credit where credit is due. But the process just makes me not want to bother posting. Its too easy to get a perfectly fine post flagged and removed.
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Yes that’s why I made the OP. Not wanting to post for fear of potential unwarranted sanctions. Bit sad on that one.
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What they should do is in a player profile show how many times they have been flagged, and how many times they have flagged other people. This would be amazing.
Giving us the power to know who the trolls are and the super sensitive annoying people are. Thus allowing us to choose to not interact with either of these people.
That would be nice though not sure if it would happen since it might just end up complicating things.
On a more positive note, I believe all of my existing flagged posts/hidden baseless attacks have been cleared by the GM’s 
Really appreciate them righting the wrongs…
Let’s hope that they also action/sanction those who keep on abusing this system and creating nonsense reports. Not even sure how to report that as I do have a few “suspects” that would be nice to have investigated
I guess perhaps just a regular web ticket thing?
You shouldnt be, my posts get flagged all the time, a mod just restores them and clears the reports once they realize it isnt a violation of the CoC even though angry people want to believe it is.
Except you could spam downvotes back then to essentially mute anyone you wanted
If you want to be flooded with hearts and praise on this mob ruled forum, post your hatred for DHs. You will be a king!
Looking at your post history, and comments in this thread, it seems pretty obvious you’re referring to the CS forum. Looking at a few of your posts there, it seems like you try to be helpful, but maybe lack the knowledge, so you fall back on sympathizing. People don’t go to that forum (or any forum, really) looking for sympathy.
It seems like an awful lot of your posts there are either arguing with other posters (I guess they’re the ‘regulars’ you referred to here), or a less-than-helpful ‘gee that sucks, I hope you get it fixed.’
If you want to help, maybe stick to topics and issues you have a working knowledge of, and leave the rest to others that have the knowledge and experience to help there.
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I sincerely doubt conservative posts falsely flagged will have any repercussions
Troll post are easy to spot and flagged into oblivion in the first case.
Problem is these forums mods are terrible and let threads that are clearly offensive and obscene stick around.
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I have been flagged a lot of times. Have not been suspended from forums for anything I did not deserve. When you do have action taken against you it provides the name of the moderator that took the action. Even if that action is choosing to unbury your flagged post.
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Exactly. That is the issue. Moderation is inconsistent. They’ll come down heavy handed in one thread, but let another thread be engulfed in flames.
We need both consistent AND constant moderation taking place. Which probably means we need a better trained (gasp) and larger moderation team.
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We were talking about someone spam flagging posts to bury them.
Or a smaller one. The larger the team the more inconsistency there often is.
True, there is a balancing act on size. Though it does feel like right now their moderation team is TINY and thus in need of more warm bodies.
Honestly the moderation team seems to be doing a bit better job on being more forgiven then they have in the past. If that is due to being a smaller team I approve. While moderation is important the older system where they was suspending people for extremely minor infractions was a bit overboard. They seem to be now editing those posts instead of suspending. In order to make them more in line with what is acceptable.
I have seen a fair few posts flagged to oblivion, only to be clear and viewable later on - which means that the post was assessed and deemed to be false flagged. Whether or not anyone was actually punished I have no idea.
I’d love some honest individual to own up to doing it but no one ever has, that I am aware of. Then again, it would be impossible to tell the veracity of that if it happened.
Can they get into trouble? It was initially indicated when the new system was introduced that false flagging was an offense and could be result in punishment of some sort. How often that happens nobody knows. The very few occasions when I have flagged a post (rather than simply muting it) have been when those posts fitted a flagging option. I don’t flag just because I think the post is crappy or wrong or whatever.
The issue continues to be that of alt-flagging. While Blizzard permits people to change their posting characters and use them to repeatedly flag or comment or like a post, these sorts of issues will continue. They need to create an avatar system where you make a single avatar and that is the only one you can post with. It will not resolve the issue entirely (because of having multiple accounts) but it would certainly reduce it.
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I didn’t respond but Malton’s post is a perfect example of an actual “troll” comment, trying to get me upset, and involving things that are not even related to this topic I chose the high road and did not react. (This is one that should get flagged and in this thread of all places :))
My main true concern here is that I have been flagged a lot of times and had them removed by the good GM’s so it’s pretty much just sad that people want to weaponize the forum system to hurt others who, more often then not, are found by the actual mods to be guilt free.
There should be some penalty if someone is constantly doing that.