Editors Only

Responding to a Flagged article

To respond to flagged comment notices:

Go to the article and assess the context of the comment. Was the commenter responding to another inappropriate comment or did he or she just get nasty?

Or was it flagged because a reader felt it was so good it could be turned into an article? If so, leave the article flagged, add a comment in response to the commenter, and then click on the commenter's name to go to his or her member page, and send a message encouraging that the comment be made into an article.

Decide whether to continue to allow the comment to be visible or not, then hide it, delete it or let it stay.

Reflag, deflag-- decide.
If you want to hide it, but show that it was flagged and hidden, hide it, reflag it to display message, then write in the field WHY it is flagged. (usually ad hominem personal attack or hate language.)

BTW, if YOU see an article that needs flagging, in the box where it says reason, add that you will deal with the flag, so, when the message goes out to editors, they will know they don't need to respond to it.