Well posts are just hidden (click to show) if enough flags are set. But I’ve seen Hedge or Julia < snip > the inappropriate part and ban the user in question for a week.
To be honest I stopped flagging posts because it can hurt the serious ongoing discussion:
After enough flags are set in a thread for any reason the system is going to auto lock it for 4h then it opens it again and if anybody flag something again it locks it down for another 4h… Funny enough the OP of Abuse of the Auto-Moderation System was the person that spammed in tree previous beamstaff threads and stopped any constructive discussion. The whole system just reinforced that.
I think my more powerful flags might lock down a thread with just a few flags and that’s not really what anybody wanted.