Can't post from being flagged too much

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Yeah this will sound strange since I'm posting

Well obviously this isn't a problem right now...but

It's a problem that's happening more and more often

Now dont get me wrong I get flagged now and again (I'm controversial) but since the first time this happend I've toned down

First I cut out swearing, then it happend again....so I cut out insults

But when it happend the third time....well now I have to beleve it's a bug

So I thought I'd report it here (already sent an email about it elsewhere)

Yeah if you have any questions

Or better yet answers get in touch

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How do you know if you have been flagged?

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@blade_r:

I can't

But you know the reply box?

Well where I could usually reply it said

"You can't post due to being flagged to much"

Or something like that

The first time it happend I kind of understood

But the second and third....less so.

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#4  Edited By mysticmedivh

@serpinethegreen: I've been flag banned before, each and every time it turned out it was a bug that raised my karma resulting in the ban, after speaking to a mod about it.

My suggestion is that if you genuinely believe that you did nothing flag worthy, then PM a mod and ask them to lower your karma, which is what I did. If you did nothing wrong then problem solved.

I've also seen some people spam-flag purposely and use alts to spam-flag as well in order to get a specific user banned. That is also a possibility. Either way just PM a mod.

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Not a bug.

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Flagged for spam.

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What is this??

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Lol

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@serpinethegreen: @mysticmedivh: Also flagging has nothing to do with bugs. It's people flagging you when they don't like what you say. You said something a few people didn't like.

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#11  Edited By comicace3

Maybe you should cut out posting for a while. Just for a little while.

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@serpinethegreen: @mysticmedivh: Also flagging has nothing to do with bugs. It's people flagging you when they don't like what you say. You said something a few people didn't like.

The mod I PMd told me it was a glitch.

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This isn't a bug. It's CV users flagging you for breaking the rules or otherwise violating site mandates.

The way that flagging works is every time you're flagged you receive one karma point. Once you have ten karma points you're flag banned - your account is not actually banned but you are unable to post because you've been flagged so many times.

Every day you lose one karma point. So say you're flag banned with ten karma points. The next day you'll be able to post and you're good again because your karma has gone down to nine.

But if you get one more flag then you're flag banned. So it's not that you keep getting tons and tons of flags. It's that at one point you had a ton of flags and you keep doing things that warrant at least one flag which brings you back up to ten and makes it so that you're unable to post.

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#15  Edited By Mercy_

@immovableray said:

@serpinethegreen: @mysticmedivh: Also flagging has nothing to do with bugs. It's people flagging you when they don't like what you say. You said something a few people didn't like.

The mod I PMd told me it was a glitch.

There was a glitch where people would end up with forty or fifty karma points, but majority of the time it's not a glitch. We're able to see how many karma points somebody has and whether or not there's anything of theirs that's been flagged in the queue and assess from there.

@blade_r said:

How do you know if you have been flagged?

Mods will speak to you if somebody flagged you and you were actually doing something flag-worthy. Basically, if you haven't heard from a mod either in a thread or by PM or wall post, then you don't have anything to worry about.

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@mercy_:

if you haven't heard from a mod either in a thread or by PM or wall post

Yeah, I never got any of those when it happened. At first I waited it out, but the second time I asked which is how I found it it was a glitch and that I hadn't actually done anything wrong.

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@blade_r said:

How do you know if you have been flagged?

He just knows man.