Yeah, my point is that the rules are kept vague so it’s all very subjective what someone thinks is an ‘invalid reason’. They might be doing that genuinely, even, if at times overzealous in it. But the rules permit this behaviour, because it is written in very vague terms and more specifically states if there’s something you don’t like, flag it.
IMO, the automatic feature should just be removed and community managers can just manually review each post. It’s more workload and I can imagine the current workers have more tasks than simply reading and moderating the forums, but in every Discourse forum I’ve used, this reliance on automatic features oftentimes has many negatives. And it could be much worse, here at least you have to make completely new accounts to really abuse the flagging system ( IF this does automatically hide posts after a certain number of flags and similarly for the threads - the latter which I’m inclined to believe),
Though speaking of rules, I think the discussion can be moved to the other thread talking about this instead? We’re very off topic here, but not here: Is someone using bots/alt accounts to flag posts? - #8 by KingofQuebec368