According to the [privilege page](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/66326/15), they can:

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That fact goes back all the way to [revision #1](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/66326/1).

But, is this still the case? Personally, I've never seen one, but then again, they're not exactly common.

Recently, I saw [this answer](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/47023/how-do-you-improve-real-madrids-squad-and-formation-in-fifa-12/47042#47042 "Deleted answer, requires 10k rep on Gaming") in the flag queue with a single "not an answer" flag, but an unusual amount of downvotes (-5), which in my experience is an indicator of spam/offensive flags that carry an automatic downvote.

I'd say it was offensive to *some*, but since it was also completely useless, I decided to flag it as offensive as well, for the sake of bumping it off the site faster.

And, lo and behold, it was destroyed as such at -8, but I never saw an offensive flag on it.

Are normal users able to see spam/offensive flags? If not, since they clearly used to be, why was that ability removed?