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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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Suspicious trend in answers to a specific user's questions.
So yesterday I came across a question. Something seemed suspicious (a badly worded question and an incorrect answer accepted), so I did some snooping. It appears that every question from the OP has ...
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Time needed to get your flag approved
What is the longest (or shortest time) you have to wait before getting your flag approved or rejected?
I have raised the flag on this question as "unclear what you are asking" and have waited for ...
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What's going on with my flag?
While waiting for Alex Gruber to recharge his batteries, the moderation is working slowly. For instance, on September 3 I've voted to close this question as a duplicate. I was certain from the very ...
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Disciplinary action for nasty behaviour
A couple of hours ago I reviewed a proposal to edit a post. The suggested edit was nasty, irrelevant and of pornographic nature. I rejected the edit choosing the reason for rejection as "harmful". I ...
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Question about moderation
You flag a question for moderator attention. You provide information to support your request.
Within what time period is the request handled?
Will the moderators inform you by email about their ...
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What flags can 10K+ or 20K+ users handle and what flags are only visible for moderators?
I want to help moderating this site, but I'm unsure what flags are seen by 10K+ or 20K+ users and what flags are only visible for moderators. This seems important, because I don't want to bother a ...
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Flagging comments as useless and for wrong guidance
Sometimes people are posting comments which are completely wrong as happened, for instance, here, comment #2, or offering a wrong guidance as happened here, also comment #2.
If I flag these comments ...
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Edit after edit and declined flags.
This question was edited fourth times by the same user. The edits were minor, rather unnecessary, possibly made for gaining some points. One of the last edits replaced the ...
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Moderators not having a uniform response to flags about potentially graded assignments when the photcopy has the point values next to the problems
I flagged this question since next to each problem there is a point value assigned which is indicative of it being a grader assignment.
I was greeted with the following response and flag rejection:
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Flagging a question before it is edited
I have noticed over the past few months some inconsistency with certain flags. If I flag PSQ with the closeflag "offtopic: missing context" and then it is edited later to be okay, I have had both ...
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Low quality posts: who deals with them?
When I look for the review queue I can see a section called "Low Quality Posts" where I'm invited to vote and I have four options: "Looks OK", "Edit", "Close", and "Skip".
On the other side, when I ...
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"flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention". What content is this phrase talking about?
I flagged an answer (the shortest one) in this topic since the answerer posted it twice (no matter if it is correct or not), but my flag was declined by moderators with a standard phrase: "flags ...
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Permanent flag-ban without warning. [closed]
I've flagged some posts and comments and nothing happened.
Edit 1. An update after correspondence with the The Stack Exchange Team about my flag-ban:
As people thinks here (Permanent flag-ban without ...
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Moderators ignoring flags
For some reason the moderators have ignored my recent flags. My flags have not been declined, deemed helpful, etc. Is there a reason for that?
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