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The question is the same as mine, the accepted answer does not apply to me, how can I raise my own case?
If the answers there do not meet your needs, asking a new question is fine but it is on YOU to explain why the existing question does not meet your needs.
Include this information in your new ...
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Flags shouldn't be "declined" as if they were always invalid if they were valid when they were cast
So you have a situation where someone (you don't specify if it's the original author or some passing editor) takes the time to follow the link, suss out whatever is relevant on the other side, and ...
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Flags shouldn't be "declined" as if they were always invalid if they were valid when they were cast
Yes, this is essentially what Shog9 said, with added emphasis, catering more to the string of now-deleted comments than the question as it stands.
High-quality answers are the most important thing ...
OliMod
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The question is the same as mine, the accepted answer does not apply to me, how can I raise my own case?
Mark's answer covers it.
To elaborate a bit: what is seemingly the same question can be a totally different one; identical symptoms can be caused by different reasons. Unless one answer covers ...
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What to do when someone's posting answers which suggest upgrading to an EoL release
This is now handled here on Ask Ubuntu.
You're also free to flag posts for moderator attention if you think there are suspicious patterns of users or sockpuppets or such. We can investigate these ...
Thomas WardMod
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What does it mean when a post is bumped to homepage by the Community?
The community user will randomly bump old questions to the front page in order to attract more attention. It will only bump questions that meet certain criteria:
A question score >= 0
Gone at least ...
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Why are new users allowed to post links?
-6 and no answers, I'm no expert or mod, but here are my musings on why links are allowed by new users. It is simply the lesser evil in the situation, we need some way for them to give us screen shots ...
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Publish question button is disabled
This is fixed as discussed at https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/353280/235711.
This was only happening when you entered the review step using the Enter key, due to a competing submit event listener.
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How do I add images in questions?
Ask Ubuntu has a built-in image uploader:
If you use it with less than 10 reputation, it will add them as links to your post; this is to prevent abuse. However, you can hope another user will convert ...
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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 can not be a valid case when a post is deleted and a flag is declined at the same time.
The whole point of flagging is to draw mod's attention to a post that should be deleted.
It is much less ...
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