Non admin/curators can view all flagged items

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I am not sure if this qualifies as a bug, but I am able to view all of the flagged items on the site. Since this page seems to be intended for curators and admins I don’t think I should have access. I can view some of the flagged observations and others I don’t have access to - presumably because they’ve been removed or taken down by the moderators. But in cases where the flagged content is a comment, I can read the entirety of the comment.

Step 1: Flag an item.

Step 2: Once flagged item is resolved, event appears on my feed. Click the “View Flag” button on the event.

Step 3: On the flag page, click on the “View All Flags” link in the top right corner.

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I don’t think this is a bug. Non curators can view flags. Non curators/admin shouldn’t be able to view hidden items I don’t think, but this is separate from flagging.

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Flags can be seen by anyone who’s logged in, that’s intentional.

But non-curators shouldn’t see the text of flagged content. I’ve filed an issue here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4240

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Also, could you make it so the Flagger field is not public information? My inat username is my name(basically) and that makes it a bit easy for bad folks to track me down. I probably should change my profile name something more generic… If you want to, I can open a different bug report or feature request for that request.

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That’s not a bug so it would need to be a feature request.

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OK, that’s been fixed. Non-curators can still see the taxon being flagged if the flagged content is a taxon, but for content than can be offensive or defamatory, non-curators shouldn’t be able to see it on the Flags page.

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I’m not sure i agree with this being a good change. Not that it matters. But, it increases the issue where curators, many of whom are there to do taxonomy and not necessarily meant to be moderators, can flag other people’s content as inappropriate without any recourse for anyone else. Who will watch the watchmen, etc.

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