Discourse on this site has been quite civil in my experience. But, with rare exceptions I would say that discourse among AppSheet creators has always been pretty civil. The new thing I notice here is that I see a lot of comments marked “flagged by community” that make me wonder what terrible things have been said. Today I saw a case where a comment from a user was marked “flagged by community” and then that comment was followed by a perfectly civil, useful comment by the same user.
I can’t see any of these flagged posts so I wonder what might be going on. Are there really that many offensive comments being made? I’d appreciate a comment or two from people with status that allows them to view the flagged posts.
Could this “or send a personal message” be causing confusion? Or, perhaps “privately flag this post for attention” makes people think that flagging is a way of bookmarking when in fact they are preventing others from seeing the post. At any rate, I suspect something is leading to a good deal of false positives.
I flag comments that seem to be off-topic. In my past experience, I’ve seen posters flag their own posts as an attempt to delete it, perhaps not realizing they could just delete it directly.
