Questions tagged [flagging]
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What do you do when a moderator is saying insulting or belittling things?
As a follow up to this question in which there is a discussion of what to do when someone is being insulting or belittling in a way that may not violate the rules. What should one do when it is the ...
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Link only answers
There are several examples of link only answers which are as we know deprecated and not very useful for this site. Usually someone comments on the answer requesting a summary of the link, or similar ...
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What happens to a flag when the community deletes the post before it's actioned?
I flagged this answer as offensive, and then voted to delete it. Then, before the flag was acted on by a mod, other members of the community voted to delete the post, and it was deleted.
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Are flags supposed to be automatically marked "helpful" when the community closes/deletes the flagged post?
I recently asked a question on what happens to a flag when the post it refers to is deleted by the community.
It appears that the flag is deleted from the queue and ignored (as far as flag weight ...
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Should we/can we have a flag/delete reason for “objectively wrong”?
Potentially a way to address Dealing with incorrect answers.
Is it possible within the constraints of the SE system to have custom flags and delete reasons, like we have custom close reasons?
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Handling Flags Against Yourself
When someone flags a post, can the author of that post handle the flag himself?
(I'm hoping the answer is no!)
Based on some research, it seems mods can in fact dismiss flags against their own posts....
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Does one need to tag all "no longer needed" comments or are moderators going through the list after seeing one?
There are situations where, after a short discussion in comments, a post is edited to reflect the outcome of the discussions. In these cases, I would like the no-longer needed comments to be removed.
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What do we do about insults and personal attacks that don't meet the "offensive" threshold?
What should we do with comments that do not meet the standards of politeness expected from high-quality discourse, yet are not bad enough to be tagged as offensive?
One example:
My own opinion ...
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