A few hours ago I flagged an answer as "not an answer". After a more careful reading, I realized I was mistaken. Unfortunately, the SE software seems not to provide the option to withdraw a flag (in contrast to the possibility of withdrawing a cast vote), therefore my question: is it posible to implement this functionality?
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2$\begingroup$ This is a fairly popular, and fairly frequent, feature request. See (and possibly vote on) this meta.se question and the numerous linked questions. $\endgroup$– user642796Commented Sep 10, 2015 at 12:24
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$\begingroup$ @ArthurFischer: If I want to vote for this feature, where do I do it? Or do I upvote the question? $\endgroup$– Alex M.Commented Sep 10, 2015 at 12:29
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$\begingroup$ An older post: Can we cancel flags? $\endgroup$– Martin SleziakCommented Sep 10, 2015 at 12:31
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2$\begingroup$ @AlexM. Yes. Even if it had 1M upvotes there's still no guarantee that SE will ever actually implement it, but at least SE is aware of the popularity. (And, as far as I can see, they haven't status-declined it yet.) $\endgroup$– user642796Commented Sep 10, 2015 at 12:32
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Yes, it has become possible now, both for questions and for answers: click on "flag" (below the already flagged post) and click on the dark blue button "Retract flag" below the list of flagging reasons.
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1$\begingroup$ Why did you post the same answer four times? You could have posted it just once and then marked the other three as duplicates... $\endgroup$ Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 9:08
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1$\begingroup$ @NajibIdrissi: True that, and this is how I thought about it initially. Then I realized that I am always annoyed when I have to jump from link to link in order to reach some content that I am looking for, so I prefered to leave the answers on those pages for the convenience of the impatient readers like me. $\endgroup$– Alex M.Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 9:14