Tutorial: How to Successfully Flag Private Aminos WITHOUT ing

Edit April 12, 2021:

It no longer works. Seems like they took it away.

Hello Leader Amino!

Recently I had an issue in another amino where a was advertising an extremely inappropriate amino. While I could handle it in my amino, I knew this amino needed to be flagged for TA to see. Unfortunately, the amino is private.

For anyone who doesn't know, TA had made it so that you cannot flag private aminos if you are not or have not been a member of them. This makes things difficult for those of us who want to report the obvious inappropriate aminos, such as ones with literal R rated adult content as their launch image (cause *clearly* that means nothing to TA).

Luckily for everyone, I'm very stubborn when dealing with this sort of thing, and I found a way around it! So today I'm going to show you how. It's actually quite simple, honestly. Anyway, let's get to the tutorial.

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Flagging WITHOUT ing:

First, click the three dots in the upper right hand corner of any inappropriate amino, and click the flag option. I didn't screenshot this step, because I had to do enough coloring to keep this post appropriate. Please make sure you aren't false flagging any aminos, as we don't want the last flag option we have for private aminos taken anyway. Not all of us want to these aminos to flag.

Next, type up your flag message. For some reason we need to do this, even though common sense says you don't need to. Typically I just put "inappropriate amino" or something along those lines. No paragraph needed.

After that, click flag. You will get that annoying pop up that we've been dealing with. The one that says, "You are not a member of this community." Yeah, we know this, but TA doesn't think things through so.

Now, click flag again QUICKLY. Gonna get the same pop up, but ignore it. It'll go away shortly.

Once again, click the flag option again QUICKLY. These steps where you are clicking flag should be done in quick succession, otherwise you'll have to keep tapping flag. Once it s, it works!

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Oddly enough it took me getting annoyed and just tapping like crazy to figure this out. One time me getting annoyed comes in handy I guess. Hope this tutorial helps y'all with flagging those inappropriate aminos. Please do not abuse this option, as we may lose it all together if you do.

If you want to help with flagging, feel free to read this post by former TA member BirdUp, which highlights keywords and themes that aren't allowed on amino. While BirdUp may have left TA, this post certainly is still relevant. Most of the keywords you can't search, but the aminos who try to sneak by with the themes can still be found and, more importantly, flagged.

If you have any questions drop them below. As a reminder, be sure to tap the flag button at least 3 times with minimal time between each tap. This will allow you to successfully flag private aminos. If there are any typos, ignore them. Good luck, and good flagging.