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I'd like to see rude/abusive flags raised on my posts
I participate on a site which discusses a lot of science. I got an answer of mine edited and I thought it was because I had compared a certain exoplanet to hell.
I just rolled back the edit, then a ...
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Show red flags to moderators of other sites if no local mod handles it in a certain time frame
There is a discussion underway in the Charcoal chat room on a certain spam post on ExpressionEngine Answers. Some of us flagged it as spam almost 24 hours ago, but flags are still pending, and a ...
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Why aren't you automatically warned when a comment of your is deleted as offensive? [duplicate]
Recently I caustically commented a just-do-it-for-me question by an old user with "More than 7000 (!) reputation points without trying to do something by yourself and adding an MWE?"
My comment was ...
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In question lists, don't show "modified by SomeAbusiveName" when a post is deleted as rude or spam
When a post is deleted as rude/abusive or spam, people who can see deleted posts don't see the content directly -- they have to click through a notice to see what lies beyond. If the post is a ...
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Allow flagging of deleted posts as rude and abusive
Currently, it's not possible to flag a deleted post as rude and abusive.
A post with 6 rude and abusive flags causes the owner to lose 100 rep, as well as having their question deleted. By contrast, ...
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End the edit grace period upon two or more spam/rude flags being raised
I am aware that a similar suggestion was made and rejected. The major criticism of that one was essentially this
The only problem with this is it's unexpected - there's no visible trace on that ...
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Abusive, but not rude [duplicate]
I came across a post, which was basically gibberish like "hsuheuduehuhfuheufhufe". Originally I marked it as spam, but it was not accepted. Why? It should have been marked at rude and abusive. ...
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Do not dequeue from first posts if a “spam” or “abusive” flag is raised
When I encounter a post in the first-posts or late-answers queue and flag it as spam or rude/abusive, and then hit I’m done, it is dequeued.
This leads to the absurd situation that when I want the ...
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Comments left by the author of a spam/offensive post should be deleted from the post too [duplicate]
In the spirit of:
Obscure the title and text when question is deleted by Community from spam/offensive flags
The same should be done for comments by the offending author for that post as well. If ...
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Why can't I flag for moderator attention after flagging as "offensive"? [duplicate]
There was a user on Lifehacks that just went about posting a litany of low-quality non-answers, the kind of stuff that should deserve the "offensive" flag.*
I flagged a couple of them as &...
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Improve description of offensive flag
A while ago, I saw this answer:
These answers are ALL wrong! Getting to the point, the CORRECT answer is The Break Statement.
I thought that "a reasonable person" would deem this answer "...
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Should flagging content as offensive allow the input of additional context?
Consider the question Textures in OpenGL turn white over time, which is a fairly good, specific question with sample code. It contains the following line, which may be offensive to some users:
I ...
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Active state for spam flags
Today, I saw my flags getting their state as active which are waiting for review.
But, the spam flags didn't get that.
Already, a feature request for spam and offensive flags for showing time was ...
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Offensive/Spam flags on meta should affect reputation on main
I just dive-bombed an answer on meta.physics.SE (I moderate Physics.SE, so the flag is binding) with an offensive flag. When this is done on the main site, the user loses 100 rep. (see https://meta....
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Keep posts flagged spam or offensive in the review queue
Currently, according to Waffles, answers or questions that have been "reviewed" are suppressed if more than 2 people have reviewed them.
This is obviously a a Good Thing TM, however, it does mean ...
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