# app.matakite.flag

> Published by [matakite.app](https://lexicon.garden/identity/did:plc:vhycfha6sjn44hxepb5bmjax)

✓ This is the authoritative definition for this NSID.

## Links

- [View on Lexicon Garden](https://lexicon.garden/lexicon/did:plc:vhycfha6sjn44hxepb5bmjax/app.matakite.flag)
- [Documentation](https://lexicon.garden/lexicon/did:plc:vhycfha6sjn44hxepb5bmjax/app.matakite.flag/docs)
- [Examples](https://lexicon.garden/lexicon/did:plc:vhycfha6sjn44hxepb5bmjax/app.matakite.flag/examples)

## Definitions

### `app.matakite.flag`

**Type**: `record`

A public report that another app.matakite.* record violates community norms — spam, unresolvable criteria, private-individual target, harassment, duplicate, etc. Flags are signed records in the flagger's own PDS: public, timestamped, and attached to the flagger's DID. Frivolous flagging feeds the flagger's own quality record; the design mirrors app.matakite.dispute — the deterrent is reputational, not economic. Flags are inputs to appview indexing, display policy, and labelers; they are not censorship, and any appview may weight them differently.

**Key**: `tid`

| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|----------|------|----------|-------------|
| `note` | `string` | No | Optional reasoning, public. Required by convention when reason is 'other' — appviews may downweight noteless 'other' flags. |
| `reason` | `string` | Yes | Category of concern. 'unresolvable' = criteria and sources cannot yield a definitive outcome (Metaculus-style annulment candidate). 'duplicate' = substantively the same question already exists. 'privateIndividual' = record targets a non-public person. 'harassment' = record targets a person maliciously. 'spam' = low-quality or automated volume. 'other' = anything else; a note is expected by appview convention (the schema cannot require it conditionally). |
| `subject` | `ref` → `com.atproto.repo.strongRef` | Yes | The flagged record (uri + cid). Valid on any app.matakite.* record — questions, forecasts, resolutions, disputes. The cid pins the exact version being flagged; a later edit to the target creates a new cid and does not inherit flags. |
| `createdAt` | `string` (datetime) | Yes |  |

## Raw Schema

```json
{
  "id": "app.matakite.flag",
  "defs": {
    "main": {
      "key": "tid",
      "type": "record",
      "record": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "subject",
          "reason",
          "createdAt"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "note": {
            "type": "string",
            "maxLength": 3000,
            "description": "Optional reasoning, public. Required by convention when reason is 'other' — appviews may downweight noteless 'other' flags.",
            "maxGraphemes": 300
          },
          "reason": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Category of concern. 'unresolvable' = criteria and sources cannot yield a definitive outcome (Metaculus-style annulment candidate). 'duplicate' = substantively the same question already exists. 'privateIndividual' = record targets a non-public person. 'harassment' = record targets a person maliciously. 'spam' = low-quality or automated volume. 'other' = anything else; a note is expected by appview convention (the schema cannot require it conditionally).",
            "knownValues": [
              "unresolvable",
              "duplicate",
              "privateIndividual",
              "harassment",
              "spam",
              "other"
            ]
          },
          "subject": {
            "ref": "com.atproto.repo.strongRef",
            "type": "ref",
            "description": "The flagged record (uri + cid). Valid on any app.matakite.* record — questions, forecasts, resolutions, disputes. The cid pins the exact version being flagged; a later edit to the target creates a new cid and does not inherit flags."
          },
          "createdAt": {
            "type": "string",
            "format": "datetime"
          }
        }
      },
      "description": "A public report that another app.matakite.* record violates community norms — spam, unresolvable criteria, private-individual target, harassment, duplicate, etc. Flags are signed records in the flagger's own PDS: public, timestamped, and attached to the flagger's DID. Frivolous flagging feeds the flagger's own quality record; the design mirrors app.matakite.dispute — the deterrent is reputational, not economic. Flags are inputs to appview indexing, display policy, and labelers; they are not censorship, and any appview may weight them differently."
    }
  },
  "$type": "com.atproto.lexicon.schema",
  "lexicon": 1
}
```