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Submit same flag multiple times
I just managed to flag the same post for spam twice. I flagged it, then commented on it, then flagged it again. There are now two separate spam flags on it in my flag history.
This is potentially possible to abuse to acquire abilities earlier than supposed to.
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When you submit a flag we don't refresh the page, and so when you flag again the flag modal doesn't "know" about your previous flag yet. After a refresh, you'll get the "you've previously flagged this as..." notice.
While duplicate flags are a little noisy, this can only happen if you flag twice before reloading the page, so it's pretty rare. I don't think we want to force a refresh after flagging, and it can be legitimate to flag the same thing twice (for example to also flag something about the user), so I'm inclined to leave this as-is unless it becomes a problem. Yes there's an abuse vector, but for that case, rate-limiting might be a better solution.
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