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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.
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Add a more obvious way to handle non-answers in the First Answers review queue
Let's go through a typical First Answers review of a non-answer from the perspective of a new reviewer.
Here's what you see in the queue:
It looks to me like I should pick one of those actions on the ...
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Can we add some more trigger words to the one-flag-comment-delete mechanism?
We just had a rather unsavoury answer on SO from someone distinctly unhappy with the service they received. To put it mildly.
In particular, there were these two comments under the post:
I've flagged ...
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Can /help/privileges/flag-posts be updated to reflect the new flagging reasons?
When declining a moderator intervention flag with the 'use standard flags' reason, users are linked to /help/privileges/flag-posts.
The screenshots of the flagging options here still refer to the old ...
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Add direct link to comment in the moderator flag queue
Whenever a comment is flagged, there are a couple of links in the ♦ moderator flag queue:
is a link to the flag queue (i.e. the page you're already on); it points to this specific comment/flag. ...
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Do not show "X flags remaining" on sites where I'm a moderator
Whenever I open a flag dialog on Ask Different, I see that I have 100 flags remaining. This is simply not true; as a ♦ moderator I have an unlimited number of flags. The simplest solution is ...
GlorfindelMod
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Improvements to handling questions with too many answers
I noticed something today on Software Engineering when dealing with an autogenerated moderator flag regarding "More than 10 answers posted to this question in the past 7 days". Mainly - this flag isn'...
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For both post and comment flags, increase the maximum length permitted for the text of custom flags
For questions and answers, the maximum length is 500 characters. For comments it was a mere 200 characters, but was increased to 500 characters on 2022-10-19. It was impossible to "Be specific ...
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Don't age away spam/rude/abusive flags
Currently, spam flags and rude/abusive flags age away in 2 days if not acted upon. This doesn't really happen on active sites, but it does happen elsewhere. (For example, I have four aged-away spam ...
user315433
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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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Make it more obvious that I'm banned only from flagging posts, not comments
Currently, the flag ban notice in the flag summary page looks like that:
You are currently banned from flagging - view flags declined in the last 7 days
It looks as if I was banned from flagging ...
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Add a link to the relevant Meta post in the flag ban notice
Currently, the flag ban notice in the flag summary page looks like that:
You are currently banned from flagging - view flags declined in the last 7 days
There's no link to the Help Center or a ...
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Auto rude/NC flags should have some non-link text
Currently, the 'possible comment abuse: too many rude/NC (auto)' is comprised entirely of a link. The link is useful, but it removes the ability to dismiss the flag individually.
Can we make part of ...
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Let moderators see the original, unedited version of comments
My question is related to Do moderators see the previous versions of edited comments? and Moderators should see the post as I flagged it, not the edited version. The accepted answer on the latter ...
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Make flags from child meta sites appear in the main site's menu and vice versa [duplicate]
Flags on child meta sites are only shown to the site's mods when they visit meta. On sites whose metas are not very active, this means that it could be several days before a mod notices the flag.
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