Flagging is the process of bringing a post to a community moderator's attention for any reason.
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Capture the Flag: FAQ on Flagging
What is flagging for a moderator attention? How does the flagging process works? What are the different flags and what are they useful for?
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Flagging questions as off-topic
When flagging a question as off-topic we are given a choice between either completely off-topic, belongs to meta, or belongs to stats.SE.
Is it possible to add another option "Belong elsewhere on the ...
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Is it in the Moderator's Job Description to patrol for correctness?
A user flagged a comment of another user, with the specific request to delete the other user's comment because it is "factually incorrect".
Now, I'm inclined to just ignore flags like this, as I've ...
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Unearthing ancient «not an answer»s
There has been a strike recently of users flagging answers in very old posts as «not an answer». While I appreciate the intent of cleaning up -- in most cases the answers flagged are not actual ...
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Upvoted rather than flagged a comment; can it be undone?
I was trying to flag a comment in this answer, and messed up and upvoted it instead. I immediately tried to cancel the upvote to discover, somewhat to my surprise, that comment upvotes cannot be ...
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About the “more than 20 comments posted” system flag
Just a notice to all the high-rep users who have been helping out with keeping an eye on flags. First: thanks for all your hard work! Your opinions are greatly appreciated. Second: I want to mention ...
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Invalidation of flags by 10k users
I was thinking about "Disputed" flag status in the past few weeks, I'd like to share these thoughts and maybe someone could clarify something about that.
It occurs to me that the "helpful" flag ...
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Wrongfully declined flag?
Incident Report:
Two days ago I checked the mod tools and saw a flagged post appearing. The post was a common happening that a person posts an answer to a rather old question, and in the answer they ...
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Don't flag wrong answers?
I recently flagged an answer as "not an answer", and what came back was "declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer." I found that ...
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What are those flags in the mod-tools good for? When and how should I act on them?
Every once in a while I see flags displayed to me in one of the tabs of the moderator tools. Most of the time I just ignore them, because I don't understand what they could possibly be about, but ...
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What does the new “helpful flags” field in the profile page count?
Recently the flag weight field was scrapped from the profile page, and replaced by a “helpful flags” field. I would like a clarification about how this new system works.
Here is my ...
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How to suggest questions for transfer to a sister site, if that site appears better suited?
Compare also Willie's feedback here that this is perfectly legitimate, at least in his eyes.
However, when I flagged this question for possible transfer to cross-validated, as I consider it a much ...
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Which flags are visible to non-moderators, and which ones are seen only by moderators?
The titular question came up in another thread.
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Deleted posts don't clear from flag cache
I noticed a bug recently, and I came across it today again which reminded me to report.
Sometimes a very low-quality post is made, usually by a transient new user, which is automatically flagged by ...
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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?
