PSA: Flagging is NOT the replacement for downvotes!

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Could be then. I am TL3 so maybe I have special reporting powers. /flex

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I can’t flag that garrison thread I looked at earlier which is still buried. The button doesn’t appear for me either.

I don’t believe anyone is actually going around flagging threads that are buried automatically regardless if one person claimed they were anyway.

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Now I am curious if it is something they removed… someone link me a buried thread <3

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How do you check your trust level again?

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https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/guild-garrisons-and-guild-player-levels/176480

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Click on your forum avatar to view your profile. Now add .json behind the URL. Press Ctrl + Fand search for “trust_level”. The one with the highest number is the one you’re currently assigned to.

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Thats the one I checked. I remember months ago I was going to flag an unhidden post, and the second it got that last flag that hid it the report option disappeared.

I cant truly judge if theres an inconsistency here, something else we dont know about (maybe a flag cap on a thread itself), or people are making stuff up.

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Well what do you know, the flagging is not there. I wonder if there is a threshhold?

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Thanks friend! It appears I am TL3 also, but I can’t flag hidden text.

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Yeah the one linked doesn’t show it either. I am 99% sure it has shown in the past so I don’t know if it is something they have recently changed or if there is a cap like after 100 reports, block any more reports.

Not that it matters of course, I am just curious now :stuck_out_tongue:

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Or the option to flag hidden posts hasnt been there for a long time. Probably not too long after that locking thread debacle is what I am thinking.

Because hey… flagging a hidden thread was what caused those temp locks for 24 hours, right? Not those specifically, but before that.

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They may have “fixed” it or it’s bugged or there’s a threshold. If it’s fixed, that’s a great thing and means that those who used to say they’d just flag it if it was hidden can’t do that anymore. Either way, bug or fixed, I call that a positive.

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:hushed: So… you were wrong then when you said you COULD flag a hidden post?

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It used to be there. It’s called “a change.” Whether bugged, threshold or fixed, I don’t know.

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You literally told me in another thread a while back that people were being punished by the forum mods for false reporting. So now they aren’t being punished?

Edit - nm, didn’t see this was a necro’ed thread but I still have yet to see anyone complain about being suspended for false reporting so I still don’t believe it’s happening.

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… wut?

What you quoted and what you said doesn’t make sense.

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I mean you made it sound like you could flag these as of today, and you didnt go check before insisting it was a thing. Just checking to make sure everything is equal here.

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:roll_eyes:

You want to argue just to argue. God forbid something that was there earlier not show up now. Just stop derailing the thread so you can feel superior. So done with this condescending stuff from you.

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Here’s what the original post says that you missed, I think:

Which has nothing to do with what you quoted.

Literally in the blue post I linked you. I don’t think anyone is going to be able to complain if they’re on vacation.

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I mean, we were having a discussion about the topic and one of us didnt have our ducks in a row. But its still on topic.

You shamelessly bumped your own thread to “remind” everyone to follow the rules. Two wrongs dont make a right, I know, but at the end of the day its for the mods to sort out when it comes to flagging.

Players cannot stop other players from posting or seeing a post, which I am glad about. I dont want to see people misrepresent what a hidden post does or doesnt do.

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