Danbooru

Auto down-vote when flagging

Posted under General

I just noticed that when I sent one of my posts through the mod queue for review, it automatically down-voted. I couldn't find any related discussion in the forums, so I wanted to throw it out there.

Occasionally I'll post an animated screen cap if it's amusing or interesting enough (and sometimes when it's not) and send it through the queue since it's not really original art. That doesn't mean I dislike it, so an auto-downvote is a bit frustrating. Case in point: post #909461. I had to add it to my favorites (it can stay there, actually) in order to null the negative score.

Updated by yaohua

Yeah... there's really no reason for this. Flags can happen for a variety of reasons. A downvote should be a very deliberate act.

An accidental approval, a borderline post, running gifs through the queue. None of these things should be automatically downvoted. This also gives member-level users a roundabout way to downvote, something we very deliberately removed.

Bumping because even though this really needs to be fixed there's a far more grevious issue here: anyone can flag a post immediately after creating an account (post #917199) so I see nothing stopping someone from creating a dozen accounts through proxies to nuke the score of one image.

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