Flag Reasons

August 3, 2006 4:16 PM

this has been mentioned before, but.. i am sometimes hamfisted, and was trying to flag a post as fantastic and instead submitted a "pick a reason:" flag. all of the discussion in the previous thread was about superseding flags - but is it a lot of work to make the site simply reject the pick-a-reasons?
posted by sergeant sandwich to Bugs at 4:16 PM (5 comments total)

I decided to make it easier on people by just accepting the unchecked flag and recording it as nothing. Just reflag it as fantastic to wipe out the old one.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:18 PM on August 3, 2006

hmm.. it says i already flagged it when i try the second time. i guess i interpreted that to mean that the second one got vaporized. sorry!
posted by sergeant sandwich at 4:25 PM on August 3, 2006

I was also under the impression that you couldn't reflag something (I even posted to MeTa about it, and I thought it was left unfixed).
posted by Eideteker at 7:55 PM on August 3, 2006

Eideteker is right. Or my browser's being buggy. Or all of this is a hallucination and I'm being bedeviled by my subconscious for some reason that will come clear in Act III.
posted by Tuwa at 8:26 PM on August 3, 2006

I'm a big believer in helpful, contextual error messages.

posted by evariste at 9:54 PM on August 3, 2006