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Why was this non-opinion question closed as opinion-based?
When this question was first written, it was missing some key details. Thus, one or two people voted it as opinion-based. This made sense, as without those key details, the question could certainly ...
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Why were my flags on a meta answer post and comments containing expletives directed at another user declined?
The author of this answer to a meta post literally told OP to "shut the freak up" (only they didn't say "freak") in both their answer and several comments. (The answer is not ...
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ChatGPT - what do we flag as?
How do we best flag [fairly obvious] suspected ChatGPT answers? Do we need to flag for a mod every time, or spam… or…?
These are usually already attracting human attention - comments underneath, a ...
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What details do you need? Or please stop voting to close as “Needs details or clarity”!
Not only the flag but also the close reason is utterly useless by itself. If you cannot be bothered to leave a comment explaining why you think the question is unclear or which further details are ...
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Why was my flag on this link-only answer declined?
I flagged this answer as not an answer because it's a link-only answer:
My flag was declined as "a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it".
According to Shog9's ...
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Why are there only few choices for flagging inappriopriate site of the network?
Only these 5 are available. I feel like some common options are missing, such as https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com, which gets confused a lot because there are a lot of older recommendation ...
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What to do with a question about a script for Windows XP that became a list of different types of scripts
How do I set the desktop background on Windows from a script? from 2008 has 8 answers,
the OP usercard shows the OP user name but not a link to their profile.
It hasn't an accepted answer.
none of ...
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How should my flagging change when I gain the ability to vote to close?
My rep is going to reach 3,000 soon (2,987 at the time of this post), so I should be able to vote to close soon. How should my flagging habits change when I gain this ability? What should I do when ...
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How do I know if my flag was 'helpful'?
If I raise a flag on a question or an answer in a review queue,
how do I find the flag was considered helpful later?
Are the items marked as 'reviewed' considered as 'helpful'?
I raised 79 helpful ...
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Post was edited after I flagged for review
Yesterday, I came across an "answer" that was not an answer, so I flagged it as such. Shortly after, it was edited into an actual answer. The flag was declined with the reason "a moderator reviewed ...
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Update the spam tag description
When flagging a question, the "spam" radio button has the following explanation:
Exists only to promote a product or service, does not disclose the author's affiliation.
There are posts ...
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Review queue "Late answers" - flag when choice was "recommend deletion"?
When reviewing "Late answers", many of them are not actually answers but comments, other questions and so on (as you can select when saying "recommend deletion").
If I choose to ...
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Which proper action should be taken to handle this suspicious post?
Recently I see through this question:
How to paste text into input fields that block it?
There is a late answer includes a link which it looks to be suspicious:
From what I read in other site meta ...
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Why my flag "the answer has nothing to do with the question" was rejected?
The question: "Is there a way to not select whitespace after a word when double-clicking?
I flagged this answer with "the answer has nothing to do with the question".
I think that is true. The OP ...
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Why was my "not an answer" flag rejected?
I've flagged this answer as not an answer and my flag was rejected. Why?
I think that answer was posted as a joke, and it did not attempt to answer the question.
Update for those who can't see ...
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A clarification request for declined spam flag
I flagged this post for obvious spam link inserted in the end when posted in Charcoal HQ. Check the first version here.
After looking at the user's profile and the link in the end, I flagged it as ...
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Leaving a comment on non-answers
I have recently seen a non-answer in the First posts review queue that got me thinking:
In addition to flagging as NAA, should I also leave the new user a comment, explaining that answer posts are ...
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Should I handle rude fragments myself? or is it better to get moderator involved?
I flagged a question as rude because of
Edit: whoever downvoted this question is a [rude part here].
Note: the question wasn't rude as a whole, only this one sentence was.
One of the moderators
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Purpose of "very low quality" flag of questions
I've recently flagged this question as very low quality. The question for those can't see deleted posts:
WHis has a to be
My media monkey broke and said “WHis has a to be”. I
tried destroying ...
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Question in close queue is marked as duplicate, but the duplicate is terrible!
Recently I was looking through the close votes review queue when I came across this question, and it was flagged as a duplicate of this question. These two questions really are exact duplicates of ...
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What should I have done with this spammy answer?
I flagged this answer (now deleted, so I can't repost its whole text) as spam. I was later greeted by this message in my flagging history:
declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no ...
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Why my "too broad" flag was declined in this question?
How to better secure vagrant virtual machines and delete vagrant user
This post asks 2 questions at the same time:
Is there a better way to do this with a first-and-one-time vagrant up command?
Is ...
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Flagging a user
I have just flagged a post on Super User only to see the user was spamming about six posts. I flagged each, only to stumble upon another user doing the same thing. I flagged each post, but I was ...
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What's wrong with my NAA flag, if the answer is now deleted?
How to force a specific software to use proxy?
I flagged an answer as NAA, and my flag was declined:
flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer
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Should I flag questions as off-topic if they are already upvoted and answered?
I've just now found this question: Note taking softwares with fast searching?, which is already upvoted and answered. For me it's off topic as looking for software recommendation, should I flag it, or ...
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Could a special case of "hardware recommendation" be on-topic?
First time on Meta :)
My question is triggered by: What is the practical advantage of a higher refresh rate and what should I be looking for when looking for a monitor for FPS gaming?
This is a ...
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Why am I able to flag my own questions?
I just noticed that I (as everyone else) can flag my own questions.
There are fewer options (no "spam", "rude or abusive" nor "very low quality") to choose, but it's still possible to flag your own ...
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What to do with same answers to different questions by the same user?
Not sure if this has already been discussed here, so here it goes. Often, when reviewing the Late Answers queue, I run into some answers that seem to be posted many times by the same user
I ...
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How do I get feedback as to why my question was flagged and closed?
I posted a question which was flagged as off topic and then closed.
Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and ...
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Why was NAA flag on link-only answer declined?
I just flagged this answer:
Text:
Have a look at this article:
Unicode Easy Keyboard Layout for XKB
as “not an answer” because it is a textbook1 example
of a link-only answer.
What’s ...
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Old "link-only answers" by a former moderator
When I report answers (new or old) that point to a link instead of answering the question on Super User, they get deleted or edited to reflect our policies.
However, I've tried to report this answer, ...
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What is with these invalid flags?
Two of my recent flags were marked as invalid, but I have no idea why. The first one was a duplicate post, only 4 questions below, and was not only closed, but deleted. I flagged it as "Dual post, ...
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How to Report Cyclic Flagging?
This question is flagged as a duplicate of this question. However, that 2nd question is also flagged as a duplicate of the first.
How do I bring this to the proper individuals' attention?
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Are flags raised for custom reasons handled differently?
So, the good old flag screen:
On more than one occasion, I've flagged something that would logically fit under "should be closed (usually for 'not an answer')" using the "in need of moderator ...
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Reference question/answer for Kali Linux questions
Is there a reference question such as this on SU?
On U&L, questions on Kali (especially all those about network connectivity) are flagged as duplicate of this one.
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Flag declined but answer got deleted?
I just got a message that one of my flags got declined.
It was a spam flag for a post on an old question that had no purpose other than promoting an external service.
The answer got deleted, but my ...
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Unclear asking VS VLQ flag
I have recently flagged a question as "Very Low Quality". This flag has been declined, then the question has been put on hold as "Unclear what you're asking". The decline message said that I should ...
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Was this flag declined correctly?
I flagged this post as Very Low Quality. The flag was declined.
Was this flag declined correctly?
UPDATE:
I changed the flag based on the helpful feedback by moderator Mokubai. In the interest of ...
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Is it all right to use the flag option to...? [duplicate]
Is it all right to use the flag option to bring to attention an question that may need to be voted to close because it is off-topic.
Example: What is the best stock market website ??
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How should trusted users deal with non-answers?
Shortly after earning 20k reputation, I've encountered a couple of non-answers and – out of habit – flagged both posts as not an answer.
Then, I've remembered my newly gained super powers,...
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Edit Recommendations
While clearing up some obsolete tags I recently flagged an answer as "Not An Answer". The answer is a link only answer posted by the asker.
The flag was declined with the following message:
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Flagging a comment which links to a picture of the question
I've noticed a comment on a Question How to stop unicode glyphs displaying as "emoji" in MS Word 2016
Which states
Note that those characters are still displayed as emoji on many platforms ...
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Trying to understand why attempting to get recommendations on software products is off-topic
I have a question here: https://superuser.com/questions/313573/recommended-time-attendance-time-clock-systems. It was closed and marked as off topic, but isn't the point of this Q&A to discuss ...
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Inconsistent Mod response to migrating Excel questions between Stack OverFlow & Super User [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When should questions be moved to AskDifferent/AskUbuntu/…?
When Excel questions at Super User are clearly vba or vbscript related I then will flag them as belonging to ...
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Moderator Flag Etiquette?
I often come across "bad" answers ("not an answer" or LQ answer), that already have a canned comment. Those comments typically come from:
The LQP review queue, where you can select a canned ...
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What's the right flag if a link has malware
I flagged an obvious spammer whose site was blacklisted by google for malware. Its straightforward since it is spam on the other hand What would be the proper action if a legitimate user posts a link, ...
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How should I flag a question when two flags fit?
This question. Should I flag it that it belongs on SO? Or should I flag it as simply off-topic? It will likely be closed there. How should I flag this sort of question?
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Flagging posts that answer the question with something the OP has already dismissed
Note: This is a follow-up on Is “Y” really a valid answer to “I want X, and tried to do Y, but it doesn't work”? — because I don't think this is sufficiently answered, or at least doesn't seem too ...
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Move a question to another SE site
I recently flagged learn ActionScript or keep the html5 path for mod attention to be moved to programmers.se, as it was relevant for that site. The question was closed by a mod without any other votes....
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What is a 'Helpful Flag'?
I was looking in my profile, and I saw the 'Helpful Flag' thing with a number beside of it. I know it's not the number of upvoted questions or answers, because my number for both of these are higher. ...
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