Questions tagged [flagging]
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At 10k rep, can you flag still?
Once you reach 10k rep, which I think is where you can review flags, can you flag or not? Because it seems pretty silly if you can...
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One of my flages is marked as "Disputed". What does this mean? [duplicate]
I have flaged one question as "low quality" during a review. Today I saw that the flag was marked as Disputed. What does this mean?
P.S. I have marked it as low quality because I think that the ...
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Why does my name not appear while flagging posts?
This is a question, not a growl.
So I flagged a question one day and I was happy for flagging that post and moved on. But when I came back, it did have the [closed] symbol, but it did not make my ...
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My flags have been waiting for review for 10+ days?
I have several flags that I raised on the 5th... and they are still waiting for review.
What gives?
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What does "LOA" stand for?
I recently flagged something up as very low quality, but my flag was declined. When I looked at the reason this is what it said:
So what does LOA stand for?
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One-line response: what flag?
It seems that one-line answers, even when they are linking to a page with a good solution, are increasingly frowned upon.
If the reviewer is unable or unwilling to edit and expand the answer to a ...
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If you're having a repeat problem with a user…
... Bring it to the mods' attention. Don't take on the user multiple times.
We've had a few separate instances over the last couple of months where higher-reputation users have actively (or passively) ...
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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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Why no extra downvote with spam flag any more? [closed]
When I flag an answer as spam, it simply flags it up and doesn't add an extra downvote, previously though I would downvote the question/answer, and then upon the spam flag the system would give it ...
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Why was this flag disputed?
I flagged this answer as not an answer, due to it just suggesting a bug report but the flag was disputed.
I understand what a disputed flag is. I am more interested in if I am wrong to flag these ...
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Why is this comment not obsolete?
Link to the comment Deleted, see accepted answer
A user made a guess (a correct one), requested some additional information, then the same user wrote a full reponse containing the comment, albeit not ...
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How long will I be flag banned for?
I'm flag banned at the moment (I had 4 declined in the last 7 days. That seems a little harsh, but that's not the topic of this discussion).
There is no indication of any way to get out of this ban, ...
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Do flags of users with review privilege count as review?
I am currently at around 7.8k reputation points, which means I have access to all standard review queues, including the "Low Quality" queue.
Now when I see a post that does not meet the site's ...
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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 ...
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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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Is it possible to remove a flag? [duplicate]
Is it possible to remove a flag? e.g. if I flag a question as "Unclear what you're asking", and the OP edits the question, is it possible to remove my flag from that question? Or if I flag ...
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Consequences of getting "Declined Flags" [duplicate]
I guess the question 'how many 'decined flags' do a user get to make' is pointless, so, what are the consequences, if any, of getting too many?
How does the system calculates declined flags (n ...
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Flag vs Close, when to use?
Today I voted to close on an off topic question, but this made me think, if I vote to close is the question also flagged too get the attention of other user's?, or should I also flag as a duplicate to ...
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First Amendment in Posts?
I always place the ending "Thank you and God Bless" at the end of any of my posts, questions or maybe just "God Bless" if its an answer / last comment.
One of my legitimate questions has been flagged ...
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Mod flag text box breaks out of flag dialouge [duplicate]
The mod flag text box goes over the edge of the flag dialogue:
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How does exactly the "not constructive" flag on comments affect posters?
Sometimes I flag comments which really don't add anything useful to the post, like "Next time backup your data!" because altough the suggestion given might be valid, they usually do nothing to help ...
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Is there a bug somewhere with the flagging system?
I just raised a single flag for spam on this question, and when clicking the flag button again the popup shows this:
But I just flagged the question once, and accordingly I still have 9 flags ...
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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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Declined flag for new answer duplicating existing ones
I had a flag declined for this reason:
This answer does not add anything constructive to existing answers. – muru 22 hours ago declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical ...
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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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Why was my "not an answer" flag denied?
A little while ago I flagged this answer as "Not an answer", as it is just a bunch of seemingly random screenshots posted by someone who was neither the OP nor the author of the other answer to the ...
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Should an answer like remove Ubuntu and install (insert distro here) be flagged / downvoted?
The question Should an answer like remove Ubuntu and install Slackware be flagged? arose myself while answering Let's not do “I don't know how to fix your problem, so just reinstall", so I decided to ...
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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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What happens when I upvote a duplicate of comment?
In many situations I have found questions that are duplicate of other questions. The first thing is to flag them as duplicates.
In some situations, I find a 'duplicate of' comment already from ...
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Why is close as duplicate flag present at two places? [duplicate]
Why is the option to flag a post as duplicate present twice, as shown in images?
I think the second of them needs to be removed(or justified)
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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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Why did I get banned from chat for spam that I didn't do?
I just got banned from chat whilst I was trying to solve a problem that I needed help from the community from. However, the spam that I was kicked for wasn't even something I did!
This is my "spam":
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Very low quality flag on a closed question, can't do anything but invalidate the flag?
I got two VLQ flags in my queue... actually the question is impossible to understand by normal humans, but I can't handle the flag if I don't either, invalidate (which I will not), or add a spam/...
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Link broken in duplicate answer flags view
In the 10k+ tools for reviewing flags I see this glitch:
This link used to work (at least yesterday). I could then click on the link to go to the automatically marked duplicate answer.
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How do I cancel a close vote?
If I have marked any question for close by mistake and it shouldn't be closed, then how can I remove the close vote of mine from that question?
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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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How to mark question as duplicate? What happens when I click on flag?
I was hesitant to rampantly flag a question (which I considered a duplicate), because I feared this would automatically disrepute the question and/or - even worse - the question-asker. So,
How to ...
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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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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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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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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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What happened to flag weight
Just now I observed that my profile is no longer showing "flag weight" instead it is showing "helpful flags". Where did flag weight go? Is it being replaced with helpful flags count?
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Should I flag answers with just a link to another site?
I've been going through review lately and flagging answers. I come across a lot of answers like this one that just have a link with no explanation.
Personally, I really dislike these types of answers....
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Why is my flag weight displayed with decimals [closed]
My flag weight is displayed with decimals. Currently it reads "510.0000" both on my user page for the main site and on my flagging summary page for the main site (no sense in linking the latter since ...
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What happens when all ten moderator flags get used up?
What happens when all ten moderator flags get used up? Does a moderator look if I am flagging the right posts and then refill them so that I can continue to flag posts for moderator attention? Or do I ...
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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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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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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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