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Tagged with flagging feature-request
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How can one retract or undo a flag on a post?
OK,
to give an example - How does one customize Kubuntu Search and Launch (with the Plasma-Netbook interface)?
When the user posted the answer it clearly wasnt an answer - in this case it was just ...
fossfreedomMod
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Off-topic flagging links should be HTTPS now
When flagging a question, most links in the dialog that comes up are now HTTPS instead of HTTP, but it seems like the off-topic links (in Flagging > Closing > Off-Topic and in Flagging > Closing > Off-...
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Please add a new privilege that allows unlimited flagging to help combat spam!
A massive spam attack happened and I am only allowed to flag 9 of them.
I didn't see any privileges that lifts this limit. If, at a certain point, this restriction is lifted, then delete this ...
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Make it possible to retract flags on comments
I have noticed that if I mistakenly flag a comment, I am not able to retract the flag afterwards. I think it would be a good feature to add the possibility to retract flags on comments.
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How do I cancel a flag request? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
how to undo a flagging
I don't see a way to cancel a "flag for moderation" request once I've made it, if I see that it was in error.
Is there a way to do it? If not, should ...
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Feature improvement for flags history
This question is asked on MSE at the following link for more visibility: Make it easier to distinguish accepted and declined flags in addition to pending ones in flags history
In the flag summary ...
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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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If a flag is wrong, but the post is still flaggable, an extended message to just "declined" should be given
There is sometimes confusion over what to flag certain posts as, and when there is no reason to flag them and they are flagged then they should be "declined". But if the post was flagged with the ...
user364819
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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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Flagging message, for ubuntu +1 questions
I think we need a specific flagging message under offtopic because, for ubuntu +1(Saucy Salamander) questions?
Update:
Some relevant screenshots.
As we can see above, we can mark offtopic based on ...
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What to do with answers that should be comments, but get deleted?
As the reputation requirement to comment is pretty high (50), many new users who want to contribute to the site use answers to leave a comment on questions, e.g. to request additional information ...
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Notifications of flags
I want to get notifications of stuff that I flagged.
I would like to know:
What question/answer it's about
If it was declined or accepted
I want this notification on askubuntu.com
Possible ...
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Can only flag as "very low quality" if is not in the positive for votes
I have recently noticed that you are unable to flag up answers as "very low quality" if they are in the positive for votes (1 or above). Now I can see why this is in place, however I believe that this ...
user364819
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Could the non-official flavour flag have an automatic comment like duplicate has?
When you flag a question with a duplicate flag, it automatically sends a comment like
Does this answer your question? How to run Visual Studio Code as root
But for the Needs improvement - A ...
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Flag disputed after post was edited
I was looking at my flagging history because... I don't know why, actually, but anyways: I had flagged this post as rude. It seems to me that my flag was disputed because the profanity had already ...
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Flag to close because the question is answered [duplicate]
Hi all I was just wondering if it would be possible to add a catagory in the to close section of the flagging menu that allows the question to be closed because it has been answered but the OP has ...
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More destinations for off-topic questions
Often, I see a question that is off-topic, but I only see options on the flagging interface to flag for a close or to flag to send it to meta, which is quite limited. Is this by design since other ...
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Retract a flag? [duplicate]
Is there any way to retract a flag on an answer?
Here is an example of why I would like to retract flags.
I flagged this answer as "not an answer" because in its original state it was just a request ...
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Flag removal - feature request [duplicate]
Could you guys add a feature to unflag a post? It would be nice to see a list of what you have flagged as, and to be able to remove individual flags.
I know this has happened to many people: The ...
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Flags shouldn't be "declined" as if they were always invalid if they were valid when they were cast
I see this a lot, an answer is posted which is a link-only one for instance, it is flagged up as such, but then someone edits the answer to include the information at the link (or similar) and then ...
user364819
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Moderators should be able to mark questions as answered
I know about similar requests, but after stumbling over this question (just an example; question poster answered himself using edits instead of an answer) I thought you should at least add an option ...
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Can we give rep to those who flag questions?
On another meta post, a user suggested that we give rep to those who upvote answers, my suggestion is giving rep to those who give helpful flags.
That way we encourage the users to flag questions, ...
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Edit flag for users
I have seen several questions which are asked by users who does not know English very well, (sometimes just bad, including myself). I want to propose an Edit flag, which users can raise to aware ...
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