The HTML error is gone, but the [Flagged] remains!

August 29, 2007 11:01 AM

You post a comment, but it contains an HTML error because you're dumb, so you hit the [!] and flag your own comment with "HTML/display error." A few minutes later, a helpful mod comes along and fixes your dumb mistake, and all is right with the world... except that you still see [Flagged] sitting right there below your comment, forever, reminding you of your typographical failings and offending your sense of aesthetics. Please, oh please, can the [Flagged] flag be taken away by the same moderator who cleans up your HTML? I promise I won't ask for anything ever again until I find something new to whine about!
posted by Faint of Butt to Feature Requests at 11:01 AM (22 comments total)

We usually delete the flags on our end when we've taken care of or dismissed the flag, but not always. Did the [Flagged] go away for you now? Seriously dude it was there for like, what, 20 minutes? An hour? Also, email works well for this sort of thing.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:03 AM on August 29, 2007

you're the only one seeing it, so really, this is a teeny tiny non-issue for everyone else on the site. It merely marks that you flagged it in the past. This is such a minor problem that it really doesn't make much sense to do all the necessary checks to clear them out if they've been fixed.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:04 AM on August 29, 2007

I'm going to disagree with my esteemed colleagues and say no.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:05 AM on August 29, 2007

Wait, that was agreeing.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:05 AM on August 29, 2007

Haven't you heard of penance, boy?
posted by SassHat at 11:06 AM on August 29, 2007

I love this Flash Mod behavior.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:08 AM on August 29, 2007 [2 favorites]

What brute show of admin omnipresence.
posted by pj_rivera at 11:10 AM on August 29, 2007

strong>Only an idiot messes up his html, anyway.
posted by shmegegge at 11:14 AM on August 29, 2007 [8 favorites]

You transgress, self-flaggulate and then feel guilty about the scar?

I'm guessing Catholic school?
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 11:20 AM on August 29, 2007 [8 favorites]

self-flaggulate

I giggled several times.
posted by onalark at 11:22 AM on August 29, 2007

YOUR HTML IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD.
posted by klangklangston at 11:25 AM on August 29, 2007 [4 favorites]

ET CUM SPIIRI TU TUO
posted by quonsar at 11:38 AM on August 29, 2007

self-flaggulate

+5 cleverness
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:46 AM on August 29, 2007

What about the scarlet "A"? We still have to wear that, right?
posted by arto at 12:37 PM on August 29, 2007

I tell people it stands for "arto". Chicks dig it.
posted by arto at 12:38 PM on August 29, 2007

"SPIIRI "

Spiriti?
posted by klangklangston at 12:48 PM on August 29, 2007

Except that it should be Spiritu, not Spiriti.

AM I MISSING JOXES?
posted by klangklangston at 12:49 PM on August 29, 2007

Please, oh please, can the [Flagged] flag be taken away

Absolutely not or you will never learn.
posted by nanojath at 1:03 PM on August 29, 2007

Consider it a mark of achievement, like a dueling scar.
posted by Cranberry at 1:24 PM on August 29, 2007

I accidentally self-favorited this post. But please leave it like that. I just discovered that any favoriting of my posts, even by me, even by accident, leaves me dizzy with self-pride.
posted by Astro Zombie at 3:08 PM on August 29, 2007 [1 favorite]

FOB: Just pretend you flagged it as fantastic.
posted by IronLizard at 7:00 PM on August 29, 2007

Flagged as Flagged.
posted by quin at 11:16 AM on August 30, 2007