Anonymous Flags?

January 21, 2006 5:59 AM

Are the "[!]" flags anonymous? [MI]
posted by klarck to MetaFilter-Related at 5:59 AM (19 comments total)

Just curious. I'd guess that their utility to matt and jessamyn depends, to a certain extent, on maintaining some mystery about their use. Do the admins consider the user flagging a comment/post or simply respond to the number of flags? Are multiple flags from a single user noticed?
posted by klarck at 6:01 AM on January 21, 2006

AFAIK no.
posted by Ryvar at 6:12 AM on January 21, 2006

Interesting questions. Since installing Plutor's handy Metafilter Asynchronous Flagging userscript, I've been quite flag-happy, but every time I flag a post of comment it does cross my mind that I have no clear idea what effect a flagging has, nor how the flagging alerts recieved by the admins are used.
posted by jack_mo at 6:54 AM on January 21, 2006

Cool script, Plutor.
posted by LarryC at 7:02 AM on January 21, 2006

no
posted by caddis at 7:34 AM on January 21, 2006

I know who is doing it, in order to prevent abuse. And again, if anyone who knows cross-browser javascript wants to adapt plutor's script, I'd be happy to make flagging work like that for everyone, without the need for any extensions.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:14 AM on January 21, 2006

when you click the flag button, a buzzer sounds in NSA headquarters, interceptors are scrambled and the terror alert status changes to burnt umber. genetically altered hamsters bred to react to the color spectrum begin to rotate a squirrel cage geared to a generator which powers a relay that dispenses cocaine to a specially trained chimp, who throws the switch on the Mattsignal.


posted by quonsar at 8:23 AM on January 21, 2006

the terror alert status changes to burnt umber.

I hereby commission you, quonsar, to create a Terror Alert Status chart with all 64 colors of the Crayola rainbow.
posted by Gator at 8:30 AM on January 21, 2006

that was great quonsar
posted by caddis at 8:34 AM on January 21, 2006

that is a nifty script. thanks, plutor.
posted by crunchland at 8:48 AM on January 21, 2006

*sends a mash note to quonsar*
posted by deborah at 10:23 AM on January 21, 2006

q, do that for migs!
posted by mwhybark at 10:35 AM on January 21, 2006

There used to be a languagehat signal, but a gang of evil prescriptivists threw it into the river. 畜生!
posted by languagehat at 11:28 AM on January 21, 2006

*Flashes the Migs Signal*
posted by zpousman at 12:53 PM on January 21, 2006

Hey, I made that mathowiesignal, damn it!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:13 PM on January 21, 2006

That plutor script doesn't do jack shit for me. I still get the same [!] with the same three step process even with that script installed.
posted by Rhomboid at 5:02 PM on January 21, 2006

Hey, I made that mathowiesignal, damn it!

you're serving it too!
posted by quonsar at 8:00 PM on January 21, 2006

Holy shit, that's account's still active? I stopped using that ISP about 8 years ago (although I must have uploaded that picture since then, something I totally forget doing).
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:10 PM on January 21, 2006

This is almost as funny as the quonsar tags, with less bannination.
posted by caddis at 9:12 PM on January 21, 2006