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Stack Exchange needs its own anti-spam system
This is not a duplicate of Should Stack Exchange have a spam filter? (Does it already and I’m not aware?) which is asking if there's already a system in place.
I am asking for a review of the existing ...
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Should we lower the flag count for spam/rude-abusive for brand new users and chat flags?
While we do love our new users - oftentimes spammers are 1 reputation users, simply cause they (clearly) don't get any votes.
While I do realise there's potential for abuse - it feels like a lower ...
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Should any flag on an eventually-deleted post be marked as helpful, even if it was declined by a moderator?
Should we have it be that if a post is deleted, any flag on that post is marked helpful, even if it was declined by a moderator?
In other words, say I flag an answer, and the flag is declined by a ...
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Adjust the Help Center text about flagging a question for moderator attention to have it reopened [duplicate]
Currently, the Help Center article about reopening closed questions says:
If a moderator (user with a ♦ symbol after their name) closed the question, then you may flag it for moderator attention. ...
GlorfindelMod
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What's the purpose of displaying username with reputation, when other users are supposed to vote on that post and not the user?
"Vote on a post, not the user."
... is the central theme and guidance of the SE communities while encouraging the voting. However it might be neglected by some users when a particular ...
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Show popup when trying to downvote a spam post
I know this has been said many times, Don't downvote spam, flag it!, but still spam is being bombed with downvotes, why?
Can we do something to prevent this?
For reference, this post says:
The ...
user569408
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Block First Post and Late Answer reviews when you can’t flag
The First Posts queue has 4 actions:
Vote up or down to rate the question's quality and usefulness.
Edit to improve the question's appearance or clarity.
Comment to leave constructive feedback for ...
user707129
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Option to migrate comment to answer? [duplicate]
A lot of times I see answers in comments, especially on questions from HNQ (Hot Network Questions). The trouble is they are sometimes helpful advice or may have many upvotes. I have been flagging such ...
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Turn VLQ flags on questions into red flags on selected sites [duplicate]
The very low quality flag is intended to mark posts that are unsalvageable and need to be removed as fast as possible. In the past these flags also had an automatic downvote from the Community user. (...
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Allow posts older than 7 days to be flagged as VLQ
I find it strange that we cannot flag posts older than 7 Days as Very Low Quality.
I have read this answer from Shog9 and understand the reasonings for why the time limit was implemented in that ...
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Flag for "official answer" on this and other metas
It would be nice to have a "flag for official answer" on questions on this and other metas for getting the attention of SE employees on feature-requests and bugs where the community has weighed in ...
user338745
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How do we stop users from using the "spam" flag when there is no "promotion of a product or service"?
"Spam" is defined right there in the flag popup as "Exists only to promote a product or service":
but most of the spam flags I process have no advertising, promotion etc. They are just VLQ, NAA, ...
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Network wide flag summary [duplicate]
Since I've become active on the Smoke Detector Project, I accumulated over 85 accounts on various stack exchange sites, and all but three are there mainly to flag spam.
I've recently been searching ...
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Can we implement the low quality flags to delete posts after a certain number of flags?
Can we implement the low quality flag to be like the abuse or spam flags.
So if a certain number of low quality flags are made (say 6) on a post (whether it be a questions or an answer) the post is ...
user310756
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Be able to flag on other SE sites without being registered there
Flags are pretty much the same across all SE sites. Even if you are not knowledgeable on a particular site (say, Cooking SE), you're probably still capable of telling whether something is off-topic, ...
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