I know you probably get wide swings on this some days, but on an average weekday how many flagged/reported posts do you get? Are you able to break them down by spam, spelling/coding, and ones where you have to mod note or warn? What forums get the most flags? What forums get the most actionable flags? You know, all that top secret mod info you have. I promise I won’t tell anyone.
Just guesstimate percentages are fine.
Over the last 30 days we averaged just over 10 per day.
December was >14/day. It has slowed down in the past month.
Normally P&E & GD combine for the most flags.
Lately Café Society has had an uptick.
The warnings are fairly rare.
Modnotes on less than half, but not sure how much less. No easy way to track those.
Thanks for the quick response. That’s way fewer flags than I would have guessed. Can I ask what the flags in P&E/GD are about? Is it trolling or lying or something else? What do people flag in Cafe Society?
After the crackdown on misogyny are posters better at modding themselves and you get fewer reports on that now? While it still shows up it seems to me it has dropped off a lot.
The P&E/GD ones are a lot of “that poster is trolling” which usually means, they disagree with the flagger, but not trolling. But we do get hijack flags too and they tend to be much more accurate. We still get a lot of legit flags about posters making the debate about other posters and not the subject. Those get tough.
Café is a mix of actually trolling and hijacks, but also please fix this title or quote that is broken.
We also get a fair number of flags for this thread would do better in another forum. Those are pretty accurate.
We get a lot of Spam flags of course from every forum. They tend to be correct. There is a team of unofficial spam hunters that do a great job in helping us keep the board clean of spam.
Overall, the misogyny seems to have become less. But that would probably be a better call from someone that isn’t male. I feel a little funny commenting on it.
Just a reminder, the inappropriate Flag will eventually be turned off as it is fairly useless. In the meantime please use “Something Else” or the “Spam” flags depending on what it is. The “Something Else” lets you explain what is wrong with the post you’re reporting which lets the mods have a better chance to moderate.
Thank you,
Jim
I too am shocked the number is so low. With all the possible reasons you list above, I’d have guessed more in the 300-500/day range.
Is the 10 per day for unique posts? I’d think one particularly bad post could get 50 flags by itself.
Yes, I should have asked this. Ten per day shocked me. I’m gonna have to start reporting more people just to get the average up.
I was using a board function to get the averages. I can’t speak to how accurate that is. But it feels about right to me. I have no reason to doubt its accuracy.
No, I believe you. I am just surprised it’s that low.
Too late to edit. Do you notice very many infractions in your own reading of the board or are most things reported?
I notice some, usually when I make my biggest mistakes. 
300-500/day!?! Whoa. I very rarely come across anything that is flaggable, in my opinion. 10-20/day sounds about what I would expect, maybe even higher than I’d expect.
Well sure, you’re reasonable and don’t flag everything. But have you seen some of the other people around here??
ETA: and I was counting each flag, not flagged posts. I assume most troublesome posts get a few flags, and the bad ones get dozens. Add in spammers, forum changes, people requesting an edit, and I’m just surprised it’s so few. Maybe I should have more faith in humanity.
As for warnings, there were 10 in February and 6 so far in March. We don’t track mod notes.
Yes. If a bunch of people flag the same post, it shows up in the mod queue as one flagged post, with everyone who flagged it listed below the post.
We haven’t had a spampocalypse on Discourse yet. We had a few of them on vBulletin though, which was a pain since vBulletin would only allow you to delete 50 posts max at a time.
The most troublesome posts do get a few flags. That’s as far as it goes. If a post gets too many flags, Discourse hides the post until we review it. That stops the flags from really piling up.
These are rare. We’re happy to fix typos, but most people don’t report them.
This was more like I was thinking, more like if one post drew 10 flags that would count as ten, not as one.
Great sense of humor! Good on you!
You should pull out stats like this when people yell about warnings given too easy.
Can you tell us how many is too many? How often does that happen? Too bad it gets cut off, it would be fun to see what kind of posts can draw 100 flags. I can see a contest idea forming.
vBulletin did not have any limit. Out of 34,825 posts that were reported (while we were keeping records, that doesn’t go all the way back to the beginning of the board), the most reports that any post ever received was 18. Another had 17, two had 11, and the rest were single digits.
Even the worst posts aren’t going to get anywhere near 100 flags/reports.
By the way, this isn’t a challenge. 
Crap, only 18? I accept your challenge and I am even now composing a post for IMHO that will stomp 18 flags into the dust of history!
Never mind. 
I’m also surprised. While I wouldn’t have said 300-500.day, I would have thought >50. I mean, there are days when I make 2 or 3 different ones, and I’d have said I was on the low end. Guess not. Oh well, reporting is a good thing, anyway, so no skin off my nose.
That is very much on the high end. Posters who post a lot in GD and P&E tend to have a lot of reports.
Very few people here read more than a small percent of the posts. I know I probably only read about 5% or so of the posts.
Maybe Dopers aren’t as nitpicky, cranky, and contentious a bunch as one might expect.
Nah… that can’t be the case.