Not really mysterious. Posts are flagged by users. In flagging, the user specifies a reason. The post is then greyed out until reviewed. At some point, an administrator reviews it. On holidays, this can be a while. The administrator either clears the flag or finalizes it. The original poster is notified of the flag and is given the opportunity to edit. From what I have seen, it mostly makes sense except that sometimes the admin has not apparently read the whole thread and thus misses context. E.g., if a thread gets personal, one personās posts can get flagged and the admin might not notice that large chunks of the thread should actually get zapped. Sometimes, though, the admin will notice, e.g., that a thread has gone political, and will zap a bunch and/or close the thread.
Letās try that out. I will flag a post and see if it goes grey.
Nope it didnāt go grey. LOL Just to show what I did I flagged both Tamhas post and Wendyās post and neither went grey.
I doubt one person can make a post go grey. If they could, then anyone with a gripe against a certain poster could simply grey out all their posts!
That is obviously the case. It could be that only certain people are able to flag a post also.
Iām pretty sure that anyone can flag a post. You were able to, I am able to (I just checked, never tried it before). I am also pretty sure that a single person canāt grey out a post (as you just tried to do). Maybe only a moderator can grey out a post?
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. Yes anyone can flag a post but maybe only certain people can flag them and cause them to go grey.
What I thought you were saying is that a lot of people would have to flag them to make them go gray.
Yes, it is possible that if N people flag a post, it goes grey. And remains grey until a moderator reviews it and either approves it or keeps it grey. Itās also possible that a moderator on their own can grey out a post (this is very likely).
That could be but could a moderator remove a post? Maybe the moderator grays them out, giving the offender a chance to change them, and if they are not changed(edited) after a length of time they are removed? I donāt think a moderator can shut a string down because that only seems to be reserved for Fool employees.
Makes sense!
The Captain
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Here is to tolerance!