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How to delete my flag? [duplicate]
I flagged a question without understanding it's correct meaning.
Is it possible to delete/remove if once I flagged incorrectly for a question ?
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Why are flags limited
I tried checking flags everyday and they increase to 10 everytime Why are the flags in Ubuntu are limited to 10 and do they get updated every day?? Or there is any limit to flags like 10 flags/day??
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Question about off-topic flagging
I'd like to know if the question asked by own OP has been solved by himself and it doesn't contain any other answers from users either, is it considered as: off-topic>This describes a problem that can'...
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Flags on multiple comments for one post
Sometimes I see several comments to one post which are equally obsolete/to chatty/...
I don't know how the flag review queue is organized, so
what is simpler for reviewers? Should I
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How do I show another user my flag history?
aditya patil asked for my flag history in my nomination discussion here. How can I provide my flagging history?
EDIT: This is a screenshot of my flag history:
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How should shopping recommendations be flagged?
See title, essentially. Currently there isn't an explicit option on the flag menu to flag as "Off-topic -> Shopping recommendation", despite it being listed as an off-topic category in the Help Centre....
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should questions like "i've got xyz modem and it doesn't connect" be flagged
I think such questions are inappropriate on Ask Ubuntu because it is specific modem companies responsibility to provide appropriate drivers for their hardware.There is hardly anything Ubuntu can do ...
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Should we edit offensive content that is only meant to vandalize the site?
Ok, let me clarify some substantive that I'm going to use:
Content: it may refer to comments, body or title of a certain post.
Offensive: anything that I wouldn't show to my Boss, family or for what ...
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Basic guide to deal with answers
With the recent acquisition of 10K reputation I've seen people flagging NAA wrong answers... this is not what the Not an Answer flag is for, for that is the Down Vote button! In which cases NAA should ...
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Questions in Answers
The answer here seems to be a question.
So the question I have is this: should I leave a comment asking the poster to create a new question, or should I flag it so that a moderator can remove it?
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Should we allow links to fundraising and the like in questions?
Today, 355273: How to Install 0 A.D on every version of Ubuntu and contribute to its indiegogo page caught my eye. The question contained (in both question and answer) various links to the indiegogo ...
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Should I flag items for deletion when this is a method of communicating with the user?
I've recently been given review privileges for new users. Occasionally, some of them make the mistake of posting answers when they shouldn't, such as here, where the user asks for clarification on ...
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A flag in the Off Topic flag menu that shouldn't be there?
When I open the Flag menu for a question or answer and select the Closing -> Off-Topic I see the next possible flag:
This describes a problem that can't be reproduced that seemingly went away on ...
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How to flag an off-topic question on a non-linux OS?
The question
Since the new flags for closing (which I applaud) it is unclear to me how I can flag a question about Windows, Mac, Solaris or whatever which clearly does not belong here.
I want to flag ...
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Why was this "not an answer" flag declined?
To my surprise I saw this in my flagging history:
My computer boots up with Ubuntu: How can I tell what's on my hard
disk? - answered 1 hour ago by TomC
not an answer – 46 mins ago ...
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Does it make sense to flag non-English questions?
I think that the scope of a flag is to make moderators aware of content that request their intervention. And also I think that this site really only support English. Now, some of moderators can find ...
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Please do not flag as low quality for no reason
Please read this question and its answers first:
Regarding "Low Quality" flag
The problem:
I've noticed that a small number of users on this site regularly flag questions as low quality, ...
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Is this question too localized?
The owner of this question wants help changing the Language for menus and windows from Chinese (which she can't read) to Spanish. Is this question too localized because it is of interest to one person ...
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Should I report comments (in any way at all) that aren't spam but aren't constructive?
I'm looking at this question in which someone is giving pretty unhelpful answers in the comments attached to the question. I don't think this person is really trying to be unhelpful, but the comments ...
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Why are my comment flags continually getting rejected?
A little while ago I asked (Should I flag comments such as “I agree”, “+1 for x”, or “I changed x in my post”?) if certain kinds of comments should be flagged as useless, and got told that I should ...
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Best way to notify the moderators?
So in the wake of the UFC-spam attack last night, I (like many of you) used-up all of my flags trying to fight the onslaught of crap being posted on our site. At one point, I noticed my flag amount ...
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Should spam-only accounts always be deleted?
Should accounts that have posted spam and don't appear to have contributed any non-spam content to the site always be deleted?
My understanding--from limited observation and this may be wrong!--is ...
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Should we commment on spam to get it deleted faster?
Recently I observe that obvious spam often gets far more down votes than spam flags would be needed for community deleting and locking:
Should we in case of an obvious spam post leave a comment so ...
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Should I add another flag as well?
Often times I see on a question a comment like this:
If I feel that is a duplicate, should I also add a flag? Or should I not, since there's already (probably) a flag on the question? Or, should I ...
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How do I flag a question with two different questions in it?
I found this question posted by a new user who is having some issues with his new Ubuntu 12.10 installation. He asked two different questions in it, one about no wireless with his Broadcom 4313 (which ...
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Should spam posts be edited, or still just flagged?
We've had an upswing of spam recently (hopefully short-lived), and I've noticed a few users editing spam posts to remove links.
This has traditionally been considered a wrong approach on Ask Ubuntu.
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Is there a Ubuntu classroom about flagging?
jrg in chat:
If the moderators were to come up with a chat session (like the Ubuntu
classroom days or something) that talked about flagging, and how
helpful it is, and the minor nuances of ...
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Are my flags helpful?
I was looking at the posts I flagged on AskUbuntu to see whether my flags were helpful or not. I saw that all my flags were accepted but two:
A flag on a question about computer science which has ...
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Flagging and answering? [duplicate]
Is it proper/accepted/correct etiquette to answer a question (for rep, bounty, etc.), but then flag it as a duplicate?
Or is this considered "gaming the system"?
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How can I take back my request for moderator attention [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can one retract or undo a flag on a post?
I had used the it needs ♦ moderator attention flagging option asking for moderator to close this question, as I has asked it in ...
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Spam Flag declined.. exactly what *is* the line?
I flagged this answer, and questions by this user on SU, SF, UL and here - he has had a clear pattern of similar posts with minimal content, linking back to the site. This sort of breaks the self ...
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Add Unix and Linux to the off topic menu
Sometimes I come across questions that I believe to be better suited on the Unix and Linux StackExchange site. E.g. How can I set up radius authentication properly? .
When using the flag as off ...
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What to do with answers that are just a link to a page that requires registration/login to view?
This answer is an example of an answer that is just a link, and to a page that requires a user account just to view.
Creating an account on that external site is free. You can even log in with a ...
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When are "you can do this different thing instead" answers considered good?
Sometimes someone asks how to do something that is very hard, unlikely to have the intended effects, or fundamentally impossible or meaningless due to an insufficient understanding of what it would ...
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Flagging Duplicate questions when answers are not accepted
What do you do when you find there is a duplicate question which has some answers, but none of the answers are accepted or upvoted. Do you still flag it as a duplicate even though the OP may not get ...
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Should humorously bad answers by known trolls be flagged?
When a user has only ever previously used the site for trolling, and then they post an answer that looks like it might be a genuine attempt to answer the question, except:
The answer is not likely to ...
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How to know if a question is flagged apart from guessing from the downvotes?
Apart from the visible down-votes to a particular question considered as off-topic or irrelevant, how to know that it is flagged for deletion with x number of flags. Same thing for answers too.
I ...
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What does each flag reason mean, and when should I use them?
I'm ready to dive in and help the moderators weed out content which requires their attention. What does each flag mean and when is the best time to use it?
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Flagging Dispute: Flag Decline by @jrg on question "internet Connection problem in ubuntu 12.04- pppoeconf" [closed]
Flagged Answer: https://askubuntu.com/a/154482/10616
I flagged this answer as "Not an Answer" with the reasoning:
"Not an Answer since the OP explicitly stated the command initially (so repeating ...
Thomas WardMod
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Should otherwise obsolete comments sometimes be retained for the community opinion their upvotes express?
Sometimes a comment with lots of upvotes is still obsolete and should be removed. This is usually the case, for example, when it requests information that the OP then provides (and provides in such a ...
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Is it OK to post, and how should we deal with, non-English (or partly non-English) answers intended for translation? [duplicate]
Questions in languages other than English, or which contain non-English text and translated text, have been discussed before on meta.
But what about answers that are written in other languages? How ...
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Should really good/detailed "me too" answers have their content merged into the question?
Usually "me too" answers don't contribute much to working on the problem, but sometimes they do, as when they present details that are subtly different than (or more detailed than) what is provided by ...
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Can comments not part of a discussion still be flagged as "too chatty"?
Is it sometimes appropriate to flag comments as "too chatty" even if they are not actually part of discussion taking place in comments?
Here are some made up examples where I would be tempted to flag ...
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Should users be able to flag comments as obsolete that they have previously upvoted?
I understand why I cannot flag a comment I've upvoted. When I upvote a comment, it means I think it is of especially high quality.
But an especially high quality comment can become obsolete (for ...
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Should comments that answer a question be marked obsolete after full answers are posted?
Sometimes a comment is posted that answers a question. This is not even always wrong--sometimes the comment is insufficiently detailed to constitute a good answer.
Then, sometime later, a good, ...
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Should I flag "me too" answers?
I am seeing a small issue with "me too"s on a few questions, especially common hardware that often has driver issues, like this question. Should this be flagged, commented, or something else?
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Conflicting information on how to treat duplicate questions
When I found a duplicate question recently, I noticed some conflicting information on how new users like myself should handle such.
On Privileges - Cast Close and Reopen Votes it says that:
If ...
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Flag a Down Vote
I came across a question this evening which I thought was unfairly down voted. I instinctively up voted to counter the down vote, however this might not have been the correct way of handling this ...
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Should comments be flagged for "light" rudeness?
I will give the example of this answer.
It was a bad answer, not much information in it, not really a good work around. A bad answer is a bad answer, we all understand that.
Now, I look at the user ...
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Could we migrate outdated answers to community wiki mode?
One trait that makes AskUbuntu different from many SE communities is that our subject matter changes at a six-month clip. The answer for new versions is often very different from the answers for older ...
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