Timeline for Rude or abusive flag denied on a flippant joke answer - What then is 'rude'?
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| Sep 7, 2018 at 15:09 | comment | added | allo | Not sure if +5 funny or +5 insightful ;). | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 13:58 | comment | added | Katherine Villyard | I'm not really saying that to criticize. I think what I'm trying to say is that rude is in the eye of the beholder, so the mods seem more likely to accept "rude or abusive" flags that are objectively awful rather than merely flippant. It's probably a good thing; I've had people take things I said the wrong way, too. | |
| Aug 15, 2018 at 19:48 | comment | added | pipe | @KatherineVillyard Yeah, from the mod answers it seems as if the Rude part is completely ignored. "You're an idiot" is abusive not rude, but the close reason is "Rude or abusive", not "Rude and abusive". | |
| Aug 15, 2018 at 17:14 | comment | added | Katherine Villyard | In my non-mod opinion/experience, "rude or abusive" is generally reserved for "You're an idiot," racist/sexist/otherwise bigoted language, profanity, etc. I was a little confused on this point myself early on. My flag of something along the lines of "Windows admins are idiots who click next for a living" as "rude or abusive" was declined, but my flags of overtly sexist comments and the random guy who came back for days to harangue me about solving his problem faster were not. I would suggest "not an answer" or "unconstructive" (if that still exists). | |
| Aug 11, 2018 at 20:14 | comment | added | user9517 | You should have just downvoted it and moved on meta.serverfault.com/questions/5316/…. | |
| Aug 10, 2018 at 19:34 | comment | added | Rob Moir | If not "Rude or abusive", which flag should I have used? -- Not an answer. It's useless as an answer, but I would suggest it doesn't rise to the level of rude. | |
| Aug 10, 2018 at 14:10 | answer | added | Michael HamptonMod | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 10, 2018 at 9:33 | answer | added | SvenMod | timeline score: 13 | |
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