Craigslist Flag Hack!

[Brinnie]

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by mvigod

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]

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]

Hey, it looks like I'm still just a "Member"

(thank God)

[Reeve of shinra]

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]

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

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]

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]

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]

same here!!!