Timeline for Guidance for how and when to flag a question: declined flags
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| Mar 5, 2013 at 6:39 | comment | added | user53153 | @gnometorule Glad if my answer clarified something, though it's not any official position. The cleanest solution of this whole thing is to move on, answer another dozen or two of questions, get 3K rep, and you'll find that you don't need the flag button all that much. | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 6:25 | comment | added | gnometorule | +1 for answer though as you took your time to reasonably lay out one understanding of the process, which is appreciated. :) | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 6:22 | comment | added | gnometorule | Well, please don't take what I say in the wrong way as it could sound combative, but is not meant so. That's (very good) sophism. :) As 5 users closed the question, it didn't need moderators attention. How can I disagree with that? It's describing a fact. But above you say I should flag what I would close. I would have voted to close (I didn't even dislike the question, but what answer was to come out of it?). As it happens, I just found an old post by Asaf which then stirred some controversy. It's not the same, but I think bottom line is it's subjective, and I'll stay away from flagging. | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 6:13 | comment | added | user53153 | @gnometorule I'll try to put it in a more encouraging way: this site is moderated by you. You can always "flag" for your own moderator's attention, meaning that you can decide to take whatever action the post warrants (and your rep level allows you to perform). The second post was closed by five users, but not by a moderator (who obviously saw the post and commented on it). This is typical for Math.SE, where moderators let the users make such decisions. Unilateral closures by moderators also happen, but in somewhat unusual situations. The probability post did not need moderator's action. | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 6:12 | comment | added | gnometorule | As to migrating questions, my conclusion from having asked about it (and from having another decline on my record as I suggested a transfer of a question that still has no feedback here to Cross-Correlated) in meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/8637/… is that it is discouraged too (there were conflicting answers) as it is disruptive. Just a comment on your third bullet, 5pm, to have this in one place. | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 6:01 | comment | added | gnometorule | This sounds reasonable, but it still amounts to discouraging flagging except in the most extreme cases. The second post was closed very soon after I had flagged it, but on my record, I raised an unreasonable flag. But if this is the site understanding of the process, then it is helpful to know to err on the side of not flagging. | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 5:59 | history | edited | user53153 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 5, 2013 at 5:54 | history | answered | user53153 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |