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I declined your the first one. First lets clear up one thing: Flags are not meant for "wrong" answers. That is what downvotes and comments are for. There is even a canned decline reason for wrong answers:

flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer

Obviously there are exceptions to this (that's what rules are for, right? Something I learned in English class), but in general if an answer is attempting to answer the question asked it should not be flagged for being wrong or missing parts of the question. Use your downvotes and/or comments.

Now specifically for this post, the OP is obviously trying to open something related to the Android emulator. The original question asks:

and after completing step (6) [installing the packages] I cannot open the android studio to get to android device manager, I have looked everywhere for it and have no idea where to find it or how to start it. Any Ideas?

(emphasis added). The emulator was only mentioned in the title. At this point we have a pretty bad, unclear question on our hands and almost any attempt to answer it will be akin to darts. Someone is not going to hit the bullseye. I declined the flag because, as best I could tell at the time, it was an attempt to answer the question and did not seem terribly far off the mark.

I did not process your flag on the other post so I cannot speak for that. The best I can say is that besides asking for output of free it goes on to talk about adding swap and reinstalling. How effective those things are going to be is unclear, but that's not what flags are for.

In regards to how flag bans are processed and handed out by the system, see this meta.SE post

I declined your the first one. First lets clear up one thing: Flags are not meant for "wrong" answers. That is what downvotes and comments are for. There is even a canned decline reason for wrong answers:

flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer

Obviously there are exceptions to this (that's what rules are for, right? Something I learned in English class), but in general if an answer is attempting to answer the question asked it should not be flagged for being wrong or missing parts of the question. Use your downvotes and/or comments.

Now specifically for this post, the OP is obviously trying to open something related to the Android emulator. The original question asks:

and after completing step (6) [installing the packages] I cannot open the android studio to get to android device manager, I have looked everywhere for it and have no idea where to find it or how to start it. Any Ideas?

(emphasis added). The emulator was only mentioned in the title. At this point we have a pretty bad, unclear question on our hands and almost any attempt to answer it will be akin to darts. Someone is not going to hit the bullseye. I declined the flag because, as best I could tell at the time, it was an attempt to answer the question and did not seem terribly far off the mark.

I did not process your flag on the other post so I cannot speak for that. The best I can say is that besides asking for output of free it goes on to talk about adding swap and reinstalling. How effective those things are going to be is unclear, but that's not what flags are for.

I declined your the first one. First lets clear up one thing: Flags are not meant for "wrong" answers. That is what downvotes and comments are for. There is even a canned decline reason for wrong answers:

flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer

Obviously there are exceptions to this (that's what rules are for, right? Something I learned in English class), but in general if an answer is attempting to answer the question asked it should not be flagged for being wrong or missing parts of the question. Use your downvotes and/or comments.

Now specifically for this post, the OP is obviously trying to open something related to the Android emulator. The original question asks:

and after completing step (6) [installing the packages] I cannot open the android studio to get to android device manager, I have looked everywhere for it and have no idea where to find it or how to start it. Any Ideas?

(emphasis added). The emulator was only mentioned in the title. At this point we have a pretty bad, unclear question on our hands and almost any attempt to answer it will be akin to darts. Someone is not going to hit the bullseye. I declined the flag because, as best I could tell at the time, it was an attempt to answer the question and did not seem terribly far off the mark.

I did not process your flag on the other post so I cannot speak for that. The best I can say is that besides asking for output of free it goes on to talk about adding swap and reinstalling. How effective those things are going to be is unclear, but that's not what flags are for.

In regards to how flag bans are processed and handed out by the system, see this meta.SE post

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Seth Mod
Seth Mod
  • 58.9k
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I declined your the first one. First lets clear up one thing: Flags are not meant for "wrong" answers. That is what downvotes and comments are for. There is even a canned decline reason for wrong answers:

flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer

Obviously there are exceptions to this (that's what rules are for, right? Something I learned in English class), but in general if an answer is attempting to answer the question asked it should not be flagged for being wrong or missing parts of the question. Use your downvotes and/or comments.

Now specifically for this post, the OP is obviously trying to open something related to the Android emulator. The original question asks:

and after completing step (6) [installing the packages] I cannot open the android studio to get to android device manager, I have looked everywhere for it and have no idea where to find it or how to start it. Any Ideas?

(emphasis added). The emulator was only mentioned in the title. At this point we have a pretty bad, unclear question on our hands and almost any attempt to answer it will be akin to darts. Someone is not going to hit the bullseye. I declined the flag because, as best I could tell at the time, it was an attempt to answer the question and did not seem terribly far off the mark.

I did not process your flag on the other post so I cannot speak for that. The best I can say is that besides asking for output of free it goes on to talk about adding swap and reinstalling. How effective those things are going to be is unclear, but that's not what flags are for.