[autoexec]

Would showing exactly why posts were flagged make it easier for spammers to tune their submissions to avoid getting those flags? Would knowing that they were flagged for one thing but not another make it easier for for them to identify what it was that let them slip past undetected? I think moderation here works pretty well, and I'd hesitate to change it too much.

[g-b-r]

> Would showing exactly why posts were flagged make it easier for spammers to tune their submissions to avoid getting those flags?

It seems unlikely it would help much, to me.

But I'm still trying to understand if an automated flagging system is in place to begin with.

It would help reviewers a lot in salvaging unjustly flagged posts, though.

> I think moderation here works pretty well

I don't

[newsomix9xl]

Agreed on moderation. Moderation is strategic communication and needs clear repetition ("don't do this", "do do this") and transparency.

Secret or seemingly arbitrary moderation smells bad, even if its well motivated or ultimately impartial and just. The perception is important and communication triply so.

[newsomix9xl]

Tuning your system around spam and against human usability by removing feedback seems like a "footgun" to me.

Humans first. Right? No?

[altairprime]

> Would showing exactly why posts were flagged make it easier for spammers to tune their submissions to avoid getting those flags?

Yes.

> Would knowing that they were flagged for one thing but not another make it easier for for them to identify what it was that let them slip past undetected?

Yes.