Mistik apologies that this took so long. I’ve now figured that the flags didn’t render the control buttons at the post because they were created when you had the approval extension enabled. After you disabled that extension, the flags broke and the controls didn’t render properly. This seems like a Flarum bug, although I am not sure whether it is even fixable.
Anyways, I have enabled the Approval extension, removed the flags and disabled the extension, so the flags should be gone.