New account review

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The problem

Most serious abuse comes from accounts created for it: throwaway sellers, spam rings, ban evaders. But a flag alone doesn’t distinguish them from your best customer having a bad day — and if both land in the same list, the disposable account gets the same patient benefit of the doubt as the five-year regular.

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The view

Filter:

• Trust level → New (add Untrusted if you enforce against it)
• Flag status → Flagged

Trust level is maintained per author across the whole project, so it already reflects their history everywhere, not just this channel.

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What it changes

The value isn’t only ordering — it’s that the same evidence justifies a firmer action here. A new account with two spam flags is a pattern; a regular with two is a conversation. Teams typically run this view with stricter actions available (suspend, ban) than the ones they’d reach for in the main inbox.