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If a post is "off topic", you should, according to How should my flagging change when I gain the ability to vote to close? …

Users with 10k privileges see a subset of flags and may act on them by flagging the posts another time or disputing the flags. They cannot, however, act on these flags in any other way. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

https://superuser.com/questions/47150/does-anyone-use-elephantdrive-online-backup-for-personal-use This is simply polling for opinion. This is not a question that has a correct answer, but one that …

From what I read from your question you are basically complaining about an flag of yours deemed invalid. Is that correct? For what its worth, I voted to close the question, because it is entirely b …

Going through the list of recently migrated questions (10k), some of these really need some editing or other moderation. What you see quite often on those questions are comments like: not seei …

An increment to a user's 'Helpful' count means they were helpful, right? Or is it that my behavior was tolerated, but never encouraged by the community? Generally, the former. Users typically hav …

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 …

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. …

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. …

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 …