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Cancel misclicked flags
I'm wondering (since it just happened to me), is it possible to "cancel" ("undo", "delete", "retract", whatever) a flag I just raised if I misclicked it, so the mods won't waste time?
I looked ...
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Allow recovery from flag hellban
Currently, users can get stuck in a permanent flag hellban from which there is no recovery.
I've asked around before and it doesn't look like recovery is possible. To recover, you'd need to gain ...
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Flag abusive users
I think the community does a great job policing questions/answers, etc. and the community has some good tools available to do this. Between flagging questions with some reasons behind it and editing ...
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Is the Very Low Quality flag too ambiguous?
The "Very Low Quality" (VLQ) flag reason is really annoying me.
It is the analog to the mommy mommy flag (which my 1.5-year-old child raises quite frequently). It provides no real clue as to what ...
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Dismiss flags on the same posts with different validities
Sometimes a post has both valid flags and invalid flags. As far as I can tell, all the flags on the same post have to be dismissed with the same validity.
The scenario I encountered (on this question)...
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Update Migration Path List for Non-Moderators [closed]
Currently the migration path options from SO are:
Meta.SO
Serverfault
SuperUser
Webmasters
Programmers
If we are going to be limited to 5 options, shouldn't we periodically re-evaluate which sites ...
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Are the new moderator flag limits sufficiently high?
Last month, the flag limits got an increase based on reputation points:
In order to encourage more flagging, we have increased the number of general moderator flags available to 10 per day, plus one ...
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Add escalation system to chat flags
The offensive/spam flags in chat are shown to every moderator from a parent site (on chat.stackexchange.com that is every SE 2.0 moderator, more than 200 right now) and 10k chat users as well. This is ...
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Can we have a way to undo a flag? [duplicate]
I know there is already a question about undoing a comment flag. However, that question was before there was the concept of flag weight.
I flagged an answer for attention because it contains both A. ...
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Is an option missing in the new off-topic reasons?
I really like the new option structure when flagging - I have in particular missed the "Minimal understanding" option.
However, I think that one option is missing. If we look at this ...
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Allow moderators to reply to a flag
Many times, I see a flag (generally a custom one), and wish to reply to it. A common type is the "Convert to CW" flag that rears its head at times (it is helpful, since it leads to me closing the post,...
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Hide "not an answer" and "very low quality" flags in the moderator flag queue
At present, when something is flagged as "not an answer" or "very low quality", that flagged post appears alongside all other flags that moderators have to handle. However, a little while ago these ...
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Add a "link-only answer" flag reason
Typically when I see a link-only answer, I have to use a custom flag and explain in the text box that it is, usually simply in the form of typing just "link-only answer."
I think that there should be ...
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Bring back review numbers to the top bar
Though I never quite understood what those numbers were and they were quite ugly, they were the only reason I ever visited the reviews page.
Can we have similar functionality back on the top bar ...
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Flagging summary improvement: filters
Here is my flagging summary on SU:
Your flagging history
32 posts flagged as requiring moderator attention
2 are waiting for review
3 were marked valid
1 were marked invalid
(older flags ...
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