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What do we do when the answer is ineligbile for flagging, but isn't a good answer? Downvote, comment. …

Maybe let the moderator know that the flag was for a previous version of the answer. That'd be a nice feature. Currently, what we see is this: It doesn't show whether a post has been edited, a …

Without context, you could interpret the response like you did. But let's be clear: moderators are not exempt from any rules we have here—whether it's about quality or behavior in general. Feel free t …

Simply choose Other… and just type in what you'd like us to do. We don't have such a close reason because it'd be used very rarely.

In general, when flagging, tell us what you want us to do, rather than just flagging as "not an answer" (which would require us to check the contents, find the target post, etc.) … I'm flagging this post for conversion to a comment. …

You're right; the post appears to be addressing the comment from Xero, but it's only evident looking at the first revision which was the version you had flagged, but not the one visible to the moderat …

It's still an answer. It may be completely useless with regard to the original question, but it is answering something. The OP was asking for specific makes/models and things that would allow them to …

If your feeling is that a question might be closed on Stack Overflow (because it's too low quality), then please just flag it as off topic. There's no need to tentatively send it over if it's on the …

Related Meta Stack Overflow requests The flag pop up on heavily downvoted answers has grey text Flag popup in review is translucent for non-hidden ignored tags Current status Wh …

When should I flag as "very low quality"? Here are the important rules: Do not use this flag as "I don't like that post". Use the "very low quality" flag only for posts that, for example, read like …

For your record, on the post you're talking about, there were two flags: "the answer is completely wrong" "not an answer" (that was yours) I declined the flags with the following reason… it's …

I just saw a >3k user flagging for a duplicate, and didn't see the need to handle it. That being said, there is absolutely no reason to worry about flag weight or one declined flag. … The only real use case I now see for flagging with an unanswered duplicate is the following: a double migration where the same question now suddenly exists twice. …

You were already contacted about your flagging behavior in September 2012. We encouraged you to take a look at your flagging record to try and improve, which obviously didn't happen. …

long as we don't suddenly get a considerable number of (actively moderating) 20k users who use moderators as proxies for things they could easily handle themselves, there's no problem with the others flagging … * This is the rationale behind having users with vote to close privileges just cast their votes instead of flagging (see: How should my flagging change when I gain the ability to vote to close?). …

In general, links to other Super User questions/answers aren't real answers—at least if they don't go beyond what's stated there and simply say, "Look here, here's your answer". We'd delete those anyw …