Questions tagged [flagging]
The flagging tag has no usage guidance.
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Flag suspected AI generated answer for moderation
I recently stumbled with this answer and some aspects of it raised my suspicion that it is AI generated, albeit with slight modifications made by the poster. The answer in itself is highly technical ...
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After earned "close and reopen votes" i can't do a normal flag?
After i earned the "close and reopen votes" i can't do a normal flag only close flag is this normal?
I select flag for a question and than select
Needs improvement
This question needs ...
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When does the "It's no longer needed" flag become an immediate action?
I have noticed that under certain circumstances the "It's no longer needed" flag acts immediately on comments and they are straightaway deleted. Yet at other times this is recorded as having ...
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How to deal with spam
This isn’t a question as such, but a public service announcement.
From time to time, and sometimes in waves like the current spam campaigns, the main site gets posts (both questions and answers) which ...
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SPAM & flag count not being reset
With the amount of Quickbooks SPAM hurtling it's way around the system, I find I can only flag so many of them as SPAM.
If the post has been deleted, does the system really, not hand back the flag to ...
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How does flagging answers work?
What is the guidance for flagging answers? When should I flag? When should I not flag? What is the right flag in different situations?
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Was my behavior correct in this situation?
I'm opening this post in reference to this question: Access ext4 disk that lost superblock and its backups
The only person who answered seem to be a a highly regarded member of this community, not ...
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Add new choice for questions belong on different sites in SE
Currently, there are only 2 choices (Meta and SO), following this flag menu:
-> A community-specific reason -> This question belongs on another site in the SE
These choices are among the most ...
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Unfriendly or unkind flag rejects stick even after flagged comments are deleted
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/606142/22653 contained some unnecessarily unkind responses which I flagged as unkind. One was a blatantly rude response to a legitimate query that an acronym be ...
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How to make flags more informative?
A few hours ago, I flagged this answer as “In need of moderator intervention”. What I should have done and what I want it to do was flag it as “not an answer”. Plus, I knew there was a chance this ...
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Answers that add information but don't solve the problem
I would like to know whether answers like the following one, should get deleted.
On the one hand, it does provide relevant information on the problem, but on the other hand, it doesn't solve the issue....
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When flagging a question to be migrated, why are some Stack Exchange sites excluded?
I noticed when I flag a question as off-topic that there is an option to flag the post for migration to another site. However, there is only the option to migrate questions from Unix & Linux to ...
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Why was this "unclear what you're asking" flag declined?
I flagged this question on February 25 and now I see my flag has been declined. There is no reason visible in the flagging history on my profile.
I raised that flag because the question appears not ...
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Why am I able to flag my own questions?
I just noticed that I (as everyone else) can flag my own questions.
There are fewer options (no "spam", "rude or abusive" nor "very low quality") to choose, but it's still possible to flag your own ...
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NAA flag is declined
I flag this post as "Not an Answer" but it was declined.Is that really answer the question?
Note that now the post is deleted but I want to know if I did or use wrong flag or if I was not wrong then ...
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