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Agreed. It's a poorly named flag. I wish it was more like this: Unsalvageably Bad No number of edits can save this illegible excuse of a post so let's agree to douse it in petrol and set it alight as …

No, I think we keep these questions. Your example goes in with hindsight. If you know the answer is "there's a silly mistake in your configuration" that's fair enough but in the real world, you don't …

You get +10 weight for flagging a question or answer that we go on to action. +5 for a comment. The same numbers in reverse if we say it's a silly flag. …

I didn't handle this flag but I did handle one very much like it yesterday. On a technical level, the answer you flagged is an answer, it's just not a very good one. uname -a will give you a fair ind …

Certainly, flagging something as being dire without also downvoting is a poor show. Why is it awful enough for us to deal with but not you? …

There's a hole in your bucket? Well... Fix it, dear Henry! There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza, There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole. Then fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, de …

We allow it... The context here that started all this is an answer which describes an addon that allows somebody to search for porn. The answer itself is not pornographic. If somebody is offended by p …

I doubt any moderator would penalise you for flagging a question which is clearly junk regardless of it being harmful. …

Everybody who gets involved in flagging has a few so don't take it as a slap in the face. Just learn from the situation. …

A few things about chat: It sucks that this happened. Any user who can be in chat can flag a message as spam. Every 10K+ user and every moderator from every SE site receives an alert when something …

What happens you vote for a comment? It gets a vote. Nothing else happens. If you think something should be closed and you have the privileges to further that, you should vote to close or flag, or wh …

The answer "your problem is this bug", specifying the bug by link, is an answer. It could be better. But deleting it is a much, much worse outcome for the op and searchers than just leaving it there. …

This is 100% about using a command line tool that ships with Ubuntu as part of the coreutils package. There aren't many tools that are more Ubuntu. In the same way that we answer Ubuntu users' questi …

It's probably okay. It's not great, but it's probably okay.

You just did it. Nuked, from orbit. Thank you for pointing it out.