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It's gone forever, replaced instead with just a count of your helpful flags We now only show the number of helpful flags on your profile page (visible only to you) ... this number only ever increases …

Flagging criteria differs from scenario to scenario but the end goal is almost always post removal. Keep this in mind when flagging. … just a "poor" answer (not very detailed, little perceived value, or you feel the urge to flag as not an answer when it does not fit the above criteria) then you should down-vote that answer instead of flagging …

As a rule of thumb, if you flag a post because it needs to be edited, you should be editing it instead of flagging it. …

Not welcome in our community While some may derive this to mean posts about things that are Offtopic this flag is designed for posts that do not fit within one of two rules. Violates the "be nice" ru …

It is spam This flag reason is pretty straight forward, with a few caveats. Spam is pretty easy to spot. Obviously purchasing Lucky brand jeans will not answer your questions about Ubuntu, if you see …

Nothing is broken. Flags in the queue are sorted by weight not by time. So less important/weighted flags sink to the bottom of the queue.

Doesn't belong here, or it is a duplicate This is only available on posts that are "questions". Users who have close vote powers already know what this menu and it's options look like. However, those …

This is just not good tact. By answering the question you break auto-forwarding, which means we have to go and delete your answer to repair auto-forwarding when a user clicks on the question from a se …

Down-vote and comment Ultimately these answers are bad, but they shouldn't warrant moderator intervention. Instead a comment mentioning the link is broken (as well as mentioning the user should be inc …

Flag for deletion If the answer can't be salvaged (it's just a link and no replacement can be found and the poster isn't likely to fix it themselves) the post might just want deleting. If you're doing …

That's why we wrote these flagging guidelines. If you're uncertain, feel free to ask in our Chat room. …

An alternate view of this would be to close the First question as a duplicate, then merge the answer into the quicklist question. Thereby giving the original answerer credit for the work via upvotes.

I think the first one is an interesting case scenario that we haven't seen enough of in the flags to make a judgement on. I've created a new question about how to handle answers with "Link Rot" as thi …

This is the comment used to inform users that "Me too" is not a valid answer: If you have a NEW question, please ask it by clicking the Ask Question button. If you have sufficient reputation, you …

But the continual editing out of those 2 words "God Bless" kept getting in the way, and shortly after was flagged as "Off-Topic" or "Unclear" when it was obvious what the real reason for flagging it was …