RE: Community Engagement being suppressed by the @asshole account on here w. Flagging everything. My proposed democratic solution - Simple. A Vote.

[barrydutton]

1/ In general: at their current 1% power settings, not as much, but you would know better.

• It is largely the principle of the matter and like I was saying, in here and the comments..... and if not this account or abuse, then future ones.

2/ In specific: The flags will affect the new users just getting started more than other more established users but as I said, it is already enough of a challenge on here daily

3/ This kind of stuff gone unchecked creates barriers to onboarding and keeping people.

Comments

[timcliff]

I submitted this pull request which will hide all the flags from posts/comments. It hasn't been put up onto the live site yet, but it is approved - so it should go up in the next release. Once this is live, the flags from @asshole will not really be noticeable unless they are actually causing the post/comment to be hidden due to a negative voting score.

[Edit] Hopefully @klye's box can counter the posts/comments getting hidden.