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For moderators, please add the "undelete" button to all deleted comments
Well, we're not exactly on the same page as a team on undeletions.
In dealing with the comments on this post — I noticed that a comment (with broader context) containing some trigger keyword was ...
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Custom comment flags should not auto-delete comments or be automatically marked helpful
Currently, if a user flags a comment with the "Something else" flag option, and that comment matches the regex to be deleted by a single flag, the comment is immediately deleted and the flag ...
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Can't mark custom comment flag as helpful after the comment has been deleted automatically
What happened:
A user voted to close a question as duplicate, generating an automatic comment "Does this answer your question?"
Another user flagged that question with a custom comment flag
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Help people learn how to write good comments instead of just flagging them
I have just read the blog post Iterating on Inclusion by Sara Chipps about all the recent changes SE made to improve the site experience. These are all great ideas but they have one single common ...
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Can we introduce comment flag bans as we have for posts flags?
Declined post flags give people warnings and can result in flag bans.
Allow recovery from flag hellban
There's a rise in both flags and in declined flags, as reviewed in these two questions:
Can we ...
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Give moderator power to convert comment/answer into pending question
Problem: I have on occasion run into "answers" and comments that are better suited as questions, and seen other SO folks pile on the response with bluntness about asking a question instead, adding ...
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Distinguish comment flag from comment being flagged
I once handled a flag on a post as such:
I first thought they were two separate flags, but after looking at the flag dashboard, only the first thing was a comment flag and the other was the actual ...
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Drop "noisy" comment flags from the moderator queue unless an answer has 5 or more comments
The problem
There are a huge number of noisy comments, and they generate a huge number of flags. But, a large number of flags are raised on comments where they won't do very much good: if there's only ...
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Drop "not constructive", combine "noisy", reword "rude" and "other" comment flags
The problem
Comments are terrible; no one agrees on what they're for, or how long they should be kept. Comment flags are equally terrible, because if no one's on the same page as far as what should be ...
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Can the thresholds for the autogenerated "3 rude/NC comments in past 7 days" flag be adjusted?
Right now, if a user has 3 or more comments deleted as rude or not constructive, another moderator flag is automatically generated. I think it's useful to know if a user is frequently leaving rude ...
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Automatically load comments when expanding post in flag queue
When processing comment flags, my workflow looks like this:
Expand post
Expand comments
Delete comments
Delete/dismiss flag
Which has one too many steps in it.
For comment flags, there's basically ...
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Inconsistent actions offered to moderators for flagged comments
I noticed a moderator flag on the "action bar" and visited the page to see what it was, see image:
You will notice that there are three possible actions for this report flagged as "not an answer":
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Show flags in comment history [duplicate]
In the moderator timeline for a post, flags are indicated on comments (a number, with drill-down to see the specific types). This is helpful for figuring out what happened on a post. I'd like to see ...
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Please warn me when my edit to a comment via flag is too long
When editing a comment from a comment flag on a site where I am a mod, I exchanged a rude word for a polite word. Apparently that pushed the comment over the character limit. The edit went through and ...
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Show Deleted Comment in Expanded Question View in Flag Queue
When handling flags (and especially comment flags), it would be beneficial to be able to see the deleted comments on a post.
For example, user A makes a comment, user B replies, user A deletes their ...
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