Timeline for How to flag Hardware recommendations questions?
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| Feb 18, 2014 at 6:17 | vote | accept | chesedo | ||
| Feb 13, 2014 at 16:17 | comment | added | chesedo | Okay, so what you are saying is that if I were to have enough privileges I would be able to 'create' a custom off-topic (only if needed of course), but until then I should rather leave it if I can't find the correct reason amongst the current flags? | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 15:30 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | No, one thing is you, having earned the privilege to issue close votes, selecting off-topic and writing something like "Hardware recommendations and shopping advise posts are off-topic for the site", another thing is you flagging the post and saying that the ports is off-topic for the site because of the same reason. The first one is the default on the current work-flow, the second one is sort of not what flags should be used for... | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 12:52 | comment | added | chesedo | At times you use flagging to refer to moderator flagging (that will alert a moderator as oppose to a member with privileges) in your post, right? (The way it is currently stated is somewhat confusing) | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 11:50 | comment | added | Bruno Pereira Mod | @FEichinger No, I am saying that we need to add another reason for close voting since this is BS like this. Flags should not really be used as close votes, if we have a base of users that can work by themselves why, oh God why, do you need to bother mods for that? | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 11:25 | comment | added | user98085 | Flagging for a diamond is the only way to flag for a custom off-topic reason - Are you saying users aren't supposed to flag custom-off-topic questions at all? | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 9:19 | history | answered | Bruno PereiraMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |