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What should I do about a flag ban? [closed]
I was banned from flagging because "too many of my flags have been declined". What should I do about this? Will it be automatically lifted, or am I banned forever?
My flag history:
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Warn users when they are about to hit the "guaranteed" flag ban
Background: Guaranteed flag-ban after a series of helpful flags
I've hit the "guaranteed" ban above more times than I should, the last time being just a few days ago.
Shog9 ♦ mentioned above, in the ...
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"Declined in the last 7 days" confusingly appears to list only flags cast in the last seven days
The flag ban system does its calculations using the dates that flags are handled, not when they are cast. When at least 10 flags have been handled in the last 7 days, if more than 25% of those flags ...
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Tweak the math for the new flag-ban system a little?
A relatively recent change to the flagging system has been elimination of the flag "hell ban," in favor of a more transparent system that includes feedback.
This is a good thing.
The new system, ...
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Guaranteed flag-ban after a series of helpful flags
Related: Allow recovery from flag hellban
Note: I am not requesting different action in my case; but thought the behavior was worth bringing up.
I had 3 declined flags in row recently (it was a bad ...
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My flagging privilege on SO was revoked, then I got it back, made a "helpful" flagging, then revoked again
My flagging privilege was probably removed with the following error message:
Too many of your recent flags have been declined - please review them instead of flagging this post!
Although my ...
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