Posted under Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests
Ok my first feature request.
When flagging a post, I want to see past flags on the reason selection page.
Right now we can only see past flags on events (or flags)
And I see some people flagging posts for the same reasons like post #6107817
I think showing past flags at the top of the reason selection page could prevent duplicate flags.
+1 from me.
Actually I requested the same thing a while ago in topic #45858.
snedmano said:
+1 from me.Actually I requested the same thing a while ago in topic #45858.
Ah sorry. That's how I should have formatted.
I guess most people don't check post events before flagging...
fluffysoup said:
Ah sorry. That's how I should have formatted.
Honestly, I don't even remember where I got that formatting from. I guess I just looked at other feature requests at the time and copied the common formatting from there. I don't think there are any rules that you need to format a feature request like that. (And if there are, its pretty hidden)
fluffysoup said:
I guess most people don't check post events before flagging...
I think most people doing these flags don't even know you can look up the post events in the first place. :/
Also, one positive side effect I hadn't thought about until now:
Reminding the flagger while creating the flag means malicious flagging becomes much more obvious. They can't use "I didn't know it had been flagged before" as a valid excuse.
snedmano said:
I don't think there are any rules that you need to format a feature request like that. (And if there are, its pretty hidden)
I would agree they aren't surfaced to users very well, so we don't usually enforce them strictly. To quote myself (before I was staff, so take that into consideration):
- In the forum help page, they link templates/rules for feature requests that you should follow
- Following these instructions:
- Catches attention of users, inviting more people to interact with the post
- Catches attention of current and aspiring site developers, inviting them to actually do what you want them to
- Makes it easier for current and aspiring site developers to find things to do & gives them the information they need to determine exactly what is being requested & whether or not the request is already implemented or if the desired result could be achieved another way
- Helps current and aspiring site developers keep track of what's been approved, implemented, rejected, etc.
- Not following these instructions allegedly risks your thread getting locked; regardless of how inconsistently that rule is enforced, why take a chance?
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Edit: I was not a staff member at the time; now that I am, I would say you are highly unlikely to get in trouble because you failed to properly format your title (although if staff tells you to do so, that chance dramatically increases), but the benefits do remain.
I wouldn't be too worried about it; it's helpful, but I personally wouldn't bring the hammer down on people if they didn't do it, & I don't think many (if any) staff would.
Tbh, in that post, I was also more than a little irritated about the conduct of a user who frequently makes difficult to understand & track feature requests, which contributed to me being more stern & pushing for this harder than I would for a typical FR forum post.
I'm in favor, but there may be reasons why it hasn't been done; I'll forward it internally.
This could be as simple as linking to posts events page on flag page, because events already shows all past flags, as well as deletions and everything else related to the post that could effect flags.
