Hey. I think I’ve only ever flagged posts by accident in this discourse. Or maybe, I think, once in the Recent Topical Discussions I flagged what I perceived as an overzealous moderator message as offensive. But I don’t find the UI very intuitive. Actually, is there a way to see how many posts I have flagged? (I suspect not)?
I remember that I got the First Flag badge for accidentally flagging a post that I considered a valuable contribution (yet it could have been considered controversial) and that I was replying to. When I finished my reply quite a bit later, the entire thread had been deleted. It felt quite annoying to get a badge for accidentally flagging a post I considered valuable.
Consider this: When viewing a comment, I see something like this:
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When I click the …, I’d expect to see a menu. Instead, it’s replaced by a flag. And I if I press that, I think it will immediately tell me “thank you for flagging this bad person and keeping our site clean!”.
When jumbling with my phone, it’s not rare to make misclicks. I often accidentally like something and then unlike it.
Huh, strange. When I click on the ... I get two icons, a flag and a bookmark. If I click the flag I get a whole menu of different options. This happens in both mobile and desktop browsers (Firefox). I wonder what causes this discrepancy in UX?
Ah, so it didn’t happen yet when it said “thanks”? Ok, then it’s not as bad as I thought. Somehow I apparently still managed to do it accidentally, or imagined so.
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