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Don't notify all moderators for flags on "move comments to chat" chatroom
Sometimes when there are too many comments under a question or answer, the moderator will move all comments to chat, which means creating a chatroom and moving all comments to that chatroom.
If ...
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Can the chat message pop-up be inserted after 5 comment "back and forth" argument strategies?
When users complain about a iffy post, they start suggesting edits and then another user gives an explanation on how that edit suggestion is wrong.
The users go back and forth, and then suddenly, when ...
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Allow moderators to see who dismisses or handles chat flags
Moderators have access to a page which shows recent chat flags from all the rooms on a particular chat server. This is a useful tool, however we cannot see who dismissed any particular flag. With a ...
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Can we make it easier for moderators to notice chat flags when looking at a user's site profile?
A couple years ago SE implemented a user dashboard for moderators, making it much easier to see at a glance a bunch of relevant information, including recent flags raised against the user. This ...
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Chat flag handling options are ambiguous
Recently, I saw a chat flag message pop up. The dialog looks like this:
It presents 3 options to handle the flag: valid, invalid, not sure. These options are ambiguous.
Does "valid" mean "this flag ...
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Can we streamline handling the "too many comments" flag by adding the purge option?
When comment threads get long, the system raises an automatic flag. One of the options from the moderator UI is a button, "move comments to chat". This creates the chat room and copies the comments ...
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Make flag history available to moderators for chat rooms on their sites
On main/meta sites, moderators can see the history of all flags and how they were handled. The interface isn't pretty, but it exists. We can also see flags raised by and against individual users, ...
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10K users should not see chat flags
As it currently stands, all users with more than 10K reputation can see flags on chat. This, however, might not be constructive.
Whenever a swarm of flags (or, really, any single flag) comes up, all ...
user206222
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Make "who flagged this" data available to moderators for chat offensive flags
This has been done before, but never got a response. I'm bringing it up again (rather than simply reusing the last post which is effectively dead now) for a number of reasons, including that lack of ...
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Allow chat rooms to define their own rules within limits
Chat rooms can have very different policies and cultures, which leads to issues due to the global nature of the flagging system. One example that regularly causes confusion and drama is the question ...
- 187k
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A specific and simple proposal to fix abuse of chat flags
There have been a number of posts recently complaining about floods of chat flags, and most of them have been wholly justified.
I propose a simple solution in three parts:
Don't let a user have ...
user206222
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Make the "flag for moderator" tooltip in chat more accurate
The tooltip that comes up when you mouse-over the flag for moderator option in chat is:
Moderator flags are only seen by the site-moderators, and should be used to indicate serious issues with a ...
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Flagging posts as spam from chat
I usually see new posts for the first time as they're fed to chat. If it's spam, I can flag the feed message, but not the original post. I need to follow the link to the question to do that.
Wouldn't ...
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A proposal for a comprehensive overhaul of the chat flagging system
In this post I'll detail my ideas on how to fix chat flagging. Most of them have been posted in some form before, but I think it is necessary to view those different ideas together as they interact at ...
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Bringing chat moderation to a stable state
So, room owners can now moderate their rooms which is great! I think this is an awesome step towards a less abuse prone chat. Now that it's implemented I'd like to suggest a few new additions to ...
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