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I took a look at my profile the other day and realized that I'd somehow inadvertently flagged a bunch of posts and comments. Guessing it was a UI thing, trying

I took a look at my profile the other day and realized that I'd somehow inadvertently flagged a bunch of posts and comments. Guessing it was a UI thing, trying to hit 'context' instead of flag.

consumer451 3y ago
Yeah, I have found the same in my profile. This has been discussed recently in various posts. That's why the flagged link is in the profile now. There is a major temporal component to posts, comments, and flagging. I am not sure what good comes from unflagging my mistakenly flagged items when they are usually at least days old by the time I notice. Considering the gravity of that particular mechanic, I would argue that something along the lines of the "are you sure?" prompt used in the delete action would be really helpful.
- djbusby 3y ago
  I just learned about this from this thread. Checked and I also had some accidental flags. Oops.
  - buu700 3y ago
    Looks like I've got a bunch too, including several posts that I'd actually upvoted. Related issue: it's too easy to accidentally mix up the upvote and downvote actions, because the buttons are close together and the visual feedback after the fact is pretty subtle. This is particularly bad on mobile.
layer8 3y ago
That should rarely matter, because multiple users have to flag a submission or comment for it to become actually flagged.
- consumer451 3y ago
  > That should rarely matter, because multiple users have to flag a submission or comment for it to become actually flagged. That's what I thought. If you don't mind taking a moment, is there any rational reason by your reading why the linked article would deserve multiple flags on HN? This may be conspiratorial thinking on my part, but if I was part of an influence voting ring, I would want to make this type of article disappear. If that's the case then the voting (flagging) ring might have just outed themselves to the admins, no?

I took a look at my profile the other day and realized that I'd somehow inadvertently flagged a bunch of posts and comments. Guessing it was a UI thing, trying to hit 'context' instead of flag.

consumer451 3y ago

Yeah, I have found the same in my profile. This has been discussed recently in various posts. That's why the flagged link is in the profile now. There is a major temporal component to posts, comments, and flagging. I am not sure what good comes from unflagging my mistakenly flagged items when they are usually at least days old by the time I notice. Considering the gravity of that particular mechanic, I would argue that something along the lines of the "are you sure?" prompt used in the delete action would be really helpful.

djbusby 3y ago
I just learned about this from this thread. Checked and I also had some accidental flags. Oops.
- buu700 3y ago
  Looks like I've got a bunch too, including several posts that I'd actually upvoted. Related issue: it's too easy to accidentally mix up the upvote and downvote actions, because the buttons are close together and the visual feedback after the fact is pretty subtle. This is particularly bad on mobile.

layer8 3y ago

That should rarely matter, because multiple users have to flag a submission or comment for it to become actually flagged.

consumer451 3y ago
> That should rarely matter, because multiple users have to flag a submission or comment for it to become actually flagged. That's what I thought. If you don't mind taking a moment, is there any rational reason by your reading why the linked article would deserve multiple flags on HN? This may be conspiratorial thinking on my part, but if I was part of an influence voting ring, I would want to make this type of article disappear. If that's the case then the voting (flagging) ring might have just outed themselves to the admins, no?