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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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Add optional box for spam flags letting you say why you think it's spam
This came up recently, where a user had taken the time to look at the link on a post and realized that the post wasn't just off-topic, it was actually half-decently-disguised spam. So he flagged it as ...
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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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Please give us an easy way to flag inappropriate ads
According to a comment on Workplace Meta, the ads experiment will be running for a while:
@DavidK The experiment will last 6 months - so most of the this year. We're planning a recap at the end to ...
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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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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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Allow retracting flags from the API
For a project I'm working on, it'd be nice to be able to retract flags through the API.
We allow people to retract flags from the web. Could this functionality be extended to the API? It could work ...
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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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Community should not autodownvote "low quality" autoflags cleared by edits
Consider:
User posts an answer.
Community autoflags it as "low quality (auto)." (This is frequently a false positive.)
User edits answer after 5-minute grace period. (Or perhaps someone else edits ...
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We need a dedicated plagiarism flag
On Stack Overflow, we've suspected the plagiarism rabbit hole was deep... but we've had some users who are plumbing the depths of that pit and finding out that it's far deeper than anyone realized.
Up ...
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If I can't flag a post, don't wait until after I've typed an explanation to tell me so
I flagged a post today, typed out a fairly thorough explanation, clicked the button... and got told that I'd already flagged this post (for something else, which I'd forgotten about) so this flag wasn'...
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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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Add "Flag as Other" checkbox to "Vote to Close as Off-Topic" dialog
Ok, after seeing the idea here, and following the chain here, and seeing it here, I think I have the best time/stress saving option for closing as off-topic.
How about we put a checkbox in the close ...
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Allow moderators to reverse and/or nullify flag decisions
We've been getting a lot of complaints about moderator flag decisions being incorrect or inconsistent lately.
Flag declined, but question closed for the same reason
Why does flag marking as helpful/...
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