"Flag as spammer" should be undoable or harder to trigger

[Feld0]

The "Flag as spammer" button in the admin area makes it too easy to wreck a user's account, with no just-as-easy path to undoing it. A single click disables the account and hides all of its content, and clicking the "un-flag as spammer" button does not roll most of it back. I'm opening this thread today after accidentally clicking flagging a user led to manually going through a user's entire post history to unhide everything.

With how easy and destructive it is to perform the "flag as spammer" action, to protect against accidents, I'm requesting that the "un-flag as spammer" button be improved to fully undo the "flag as spammer" action. Alternatively, the "flag as spammer" button could be modified to require a confirmation, with a warning that the action cannot be easily undone.

[Morgin]

If you can convince a community dev to take a look, there might be a similar way to limit the button to only show for users with less than X posts.

[inkredible]

I am not sure if the upcoming delayed deletes feature is going to help against it. I know that one my community administrators have flagged me as spammer and they were able to recreate the user without installing mysql backups or so.

We face ~5 spammers every day even though we use recaptcha2 and custom security questions changing frequently. I am actually very happy that it's that easy to flag spammers, but it would be nice to undo that without causing harm.

[Simon Woods]

Just to check: to un-hide the content, did you go via the account profile and un-hide using the select-all box?