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Brinnie
08-08-2005, 05:09 AM
From the craigslist FAQ: What are "flags?"
If you see a problem with a posting, choose a reason why the posting needs to be removed from the choices located on the upper left of the posting: miscategorized, prohibited, spam, discussion, best of. If enough people flag the post for the same reason, the post will automatically be returned to the poster with an email explaining why the post was returned. [Flagging FAQ (http://www.eskimo.com/~newowl/Flagged_FAQ.htm)]



What this translates into for vB:
If a post gets flagged "x" amount of times, it get's deleted and a PM sent back to the poster that says: "Hi, Brinnie. Several people flagged your post as "miscategorized". Here is a copy of your post. Please repost it in the correct forum next time :)
Thanks.

The admin would set this per forum.
The admin would set how many flags it takes to remove a post/thread.
The admin would set whether of not it applies to admins, mods or certain groups.

This would be useful for dealing with people like me.
You community becomes a democrasy where the majority wins. You will never need a moderator again. :)

And here is an example of a craigslist post:
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/muc/89572527.html
mvigod
08-09-2005, 02:30 AM
Good suggestion...we actually considered doing something along these lines for about a year now but never implemented. The one downside is when something extremely bad gets posted. If not enough users flag it then it might get seen for hours or longer until they do. Otherwise the concept is an interesting one. Member moderators.
Brinnie
08-09-2005, 06:18 AM
Good suggestion...we actually considered doing something along these lines for about a year now but never implemented. The one downside is when something extremely bad gets posted. If not enough users flag it then it might get seen for hours or longer until they do. Otherwise the concept is an interesting one. Member moderators.

Who is "we"?
m0nde
08-09-2005, 07:10 AM
Good idea. I already have people on my board doing this kind of thing, but sending me or other moderators/administrators PM's telling us about problems.
If there was a way to flag these things in the user interface it would be of great help. I think that people should only see these flags after they've become experienced with your board. So, you could set this up to only show up after X number of posts.

If someone could come up with a plug-in for 3.5 that does it, it would be greatly appreciated!

- Sid

p.s. Brinnie, you're treading very close to the 200-post mark and you'll soon be a "Senior User". Get ready for the barrage of questions from us n00bs. :)
Brinnie
08-10-2005, 12:50 PM
Hey, it looks like I'm still just a "Member"

(thank God)
Reeve of shinra
08-10-2005, 08:48 PM
Theres a hack for 3.0.x that makes a post in your staff forum (you set the forum id) when a post gets reported. I just use that.
Brinnie
08-11-2005, 05:52 AM
Theres a hack for 3.0.x that makes a post in your staff forum (you set the forum id) when a post gets reported. I just use that.

That is NOTHING like this idea.
darksoulz
04-09-2006, 02:34 AM
just wanted to bump this and see if anyone ever worked on this or something similar. I was just thinking about trying to create something like this for a board but dont want to duplicate work.
tubezoom
12-17-2007, 12:32 PM
I would like to bump this back up. This is a great tool that allows the members to get involved more with the vbull. community.

If a post gets flagged to many times it should be moved to a moderated thread that the mods can then view, delete or activate.

Have a flag button next to the rep. button.

Is there any programmers out there that would like to take on this project. I will pay for the hack and time.
mano1.com
05-28-2008, 10:30 PM
same here!!!
ViViD
07-31-2008, 02:49 PM
Very good idea ...The users will be glad to have this feature.
paul1972
08-17-2011, 12:47 AM
I was thinking about a flagging system too, kinda like craigslist.

Here's how it would work.
A member sees a inappropriate post and clicks on the FLAG button, a dropdown menu with several fields for the flag, such as spam, cursing, something illegal, etc. The member clicks on the appropriate field and clicks OK.
After say...5 flags the post is removed and sent to a section that only the administrator can view. And it show the names of the members who flagged it, incase a member goes on a flagging spree.