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Revoking flags and close votes
I accidentally flagged a question with the wrong option. Is there any way to un-submit, undo, or change that flag so that a moderator doesn't have to bother with it?
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Nope, but you could either leave a comment on the question/answer so moderators know your flag is no longer correct. Or you could try notifying the moderators in our chat room, so we know we can dismiss it.
In the end, moderators are human error handlers, so we check your flag and if we deem it invalid, we won't act on it. So as long as you can avoid this from happening very often, there's little harm done. If you do, we would deem your flags invalid and at some point your flags would get very little priority.
But for now, no need to worry
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3It's for this reason I'm glad we don't have (public) flag weight anymore.– slhckCommented Jul 10, 2012 at 18:45
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You can also flag it again and say "oops, sorry, ignore that flag, here's what I really meant". We'll generally just dismiss it and move on.– nhinkle ModCommented Jul 10, 2012 at 19:30
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@nhinkle I just tried to flag a question twice and I got an error message that I had already flagged it, so I'm not entirely sure if that's true– Ivo Flipse ModCommented Jul 10, 2012 at 19:34
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Huh. I thought with custom mod messages you could do that, but maybe it's changed. YMMV, apparently.– nhinkle ModCommented Jul 10, 2012 at 19:37
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@nhinkle Flagging twice never works. I've wanted to do that a couple of times but you get the error once you submit the form.– slhckCommented Jul 10, 2012 at 21:19
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Yesterday, I went to flag something twice (not realizing I had already flagged it the first time), and it seemed that the second flag was just silently dropped/ignored. In both cases, the flag reason was "not an answer", so that may have made a difference. Commented Jul 10, 2012 at 21:25