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View submission: Announcement: New Rules, Guidelines and Flair System
My impression is that flairs are not awarded for life: they can be taken away if there's reason to believe someone lied. And it's not easy to keep up a lie.
OK, makes sense.
Comment by mediaisdelicious at 07/11/2018 at 16:48 UTC
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You can think of flair on the backend as being half of our moderation system. Ideally, we'd check every comment for quality but that's bonkers.
So, we have two systems - a flair system which lets us ignore some comments until reported, and a reporting system which tells us which comments need attention. If people who answer questions are applying for flair like they should, we end up normalizing (over time) on a good battery of panelists. If a flaired user gets reported, they get moderated like everyone else.