I know that flags being changed colour to something less confronting has been said, but what if we could pick the colour of the flag and have an agreed system upon what each flag means?
Red: General Flag
Orange: This has already been asked
Yellow: Typos/bad formatting/wording, can someone edit?
Green: This needs a BA/Should be BA
Blue: Retag
Purple: Breaks the rules (general, minor issues eg. Roms)
White: Offensive/Troll, Please check this user. (More serious offenses, priority?)
Black: Other (please comment).
(Any other ideas?)
Or something like that? There's probably more instances of flags being used I'm forgetting ATM, but I think this would be a great way to tell mods what's needed without clogging the activity log with comments and stuff like "flagging for BA".
Maybe coloured flags can be a point requirement?* Like, up to a certain amount of points, you can only flag red, but after the point requirement, when you try to flag, a box of colours appears and you can select the flag colour, or the "reason for flagging", so that staff knows why it was flagged.
Basically, in conclusion, this would be good because:
- The Flags communicate with staff without flooding activity log with comments.
- There'll be no more "why was this flagged?" comments
- The flagger can stay anonymous because they won't have to state why they flagged it
- Probably would help keep the database more organized?
*= because new users might not know the flag colour system and may randomly colour flags incorrectly
