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Typo in flagging suggestions - “not a real question”
From the flagging summary:
It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overy broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its ...
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Should I flag answers that have been accepted even when they don't answer the question?
I just got a flag declined for flagging this answer as "not an answer". The flagging comment stated "declined - Almost by definition, an accepted answer is an answer. Pointless or bad answer should be ...
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Why on earth was this flag declined?
I flagged this as Not an Answer. Apologies to Sven, but it's just plain not an answer. It's a comment asking for clarification and offering general advice. I asked for a sanity check after the decline ...
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Should we edit posts with foul language?
I came across a question today that included some mild profanity. I'm not sure if I've come across swearing in questions before, but this is the first time it has bothered me.
Should we edit posts to ...
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Flagging a duplicate question on serverfault that was found in another SE site is NOT valid?
Recently I flagged a post as possibly being a duplicate of another on stackoverflow. However, this request was rejected as the flagged duplicate was not within the serverfault site.
I found a ...
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Flag window dimming
While flagging an answer that already had a few down-votes to it, I noticed that the text that appears dims as much as the answer has.
References:
--------------VS--------------
I guess the ...
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Handling very-low-quality answers
As a moderator I see a lot of flags for "very low quality". Sometimes they can be fixed. A lot of the time the flag is code for, "this is a crap answer," and nothing can be done but down-vote it, ...
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Flag a closed question for removal?
I just came across a question that looks to me like the intention was to remove it last November:
to be deleted - question [closed] [closed] (edit: meanwhile removed)
Having less than 10k rep, ...
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Migrate question from ServerFault to Unix & Linux
When flagging a question on SF and selecting It doesn't belong here followed by Off topic, there are options to migrate to meta, StackOverflow, SuperUsers and Webmasters but not to Unix&Linux. ...
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“Not an answer” — really?
I've flagged a couple of answers lately that got marked as invalid -- one for an answer that wasn't, and the other for one that was. I'd like to get some feedback on these flags, so as not to waste ...
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Flagging Question
I'm still relatively new here, and am enjoying calling this my home. I want to make sure I'm understanding some of the features I'm using so I don't unnecessarily causing the mods work when there ...
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Abnormal flag weight
Today, when I looked at my profile, I noticed my Flag weight is a decimal. How is this possible?
Are you using some vintage Pentiums maybe? (Context) :-)
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New flag reason for “Pointless Answer” for “Me too” type answers
I'm referring to a rather specific class of "answers" that people post, but it is happening frequently enough now that it's generating a lot of crap "answers" and is starting to annoy me somewhat.
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