Flags that have been declined by a community moderator.
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Since moderators are just asking users to flag a custom “Link only answer,” can we permanently make this a flag option?
For a couple weeks, moderators have been declining not an answer flags on link-only answers:
declined - Please don't flag link only answers as 'not an answer': Flagging as 'Not an answer'
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NAA, or just bad answer? [duplicate]
This question basically boils down to "What is the difference between X and Y:"
What is the difference between having
<%# Eval("State") %> in your aspx page or
<%# ...
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Is this a real answer?
Regarding this answer:
How to play .mov file in Android devices using default player?
.MOV not supported in android.
I've flagged it as NAA, because it basically reiterates that .mov files are ...
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When should the “Too chatty” flag for comments be used?
So, in the spirit of George's question, I decided to try my hand at flagging comments again, and flagged a comment as "too chatty".
The question I found was non-constructive in my opinion, but ...
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When is an answer not an answer?
Whilst reviewing answers I came across an answer that was several paragraphs long and I imagine that without reading it there are those who might consider it to be ok and happily move on to the next ...
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My flag was declined on an answer that didn't answer the question [duplicate]
I flagged this question the yesterday while I was trying to solve my own issues building my Android project. I flagged it as needing moderator attention, while it meets the criteria for "not an ...
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How to deal with cross-site exact duplicates?
These questions:
bash script merge and python slicing
bash script file merge / piping and Python slicing
Are exact duplicates, so I attempted to flag one as such, and got an error message along the ...
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More informative flagging history for comments
When we enter the flagging history for our account through the number link in our profile, we get a nice list of flagged questions/answers, and on the right a summary of the number of helpful, ...
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Either I need clarification on the 'Not an answer' flags or it needs a new description
First of all - I'm not going to bitch and moan to moderators in this topic. I'm here to ask clarification because I've had a flag declined and I really have no clue what I did 'wrong', or how to avoid ...
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My helpful flag was declined [duplicate]
Yesterday I flagged a question as not constructive on meta. It was declined by moderators, then I thought that the post was a constructive one.
But I saw now that the same post was closed as not ...
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Only dismiss flags of the same type when one is declined as not a valid flag [duplicate]
Highly related: Dismiss flags on the same posts with different validities
Similar to the above but narrower in scope, only dismiss other flags on a post if they are of the same type being dismissed.
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Understanding why this not an answer flag was declined?
I was reviewing the list of flagged posts, and came across one that was marked as "Not an Answer". The full response was:
i have same problem, pls answer to this
I agreed with the existing flag, ...
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Possibility to add comments to flag
I would like SO to have the possibility to add a comment for the moderator when you flag something.
Why?
I made a mistake. I saw a duplicate question and flagged it. By a stupid copy-paste mistake, ...
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How long should one wait before flagging as NARQ
Recently a question came up on SO which was very poor and IMO it was not a real question*. I considered some options, but ended up leaving a comment and a downvote on the question; hoping to prompt a ...
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How do I custom flag an answer as a “Link only answer”? [duplicate]
I usually flag answer containing only a link as "Other" and write a comment to the mod such like "Link only answer". Anyway the flag was declined with the statement:
Links only answer – 4 hours ...
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Review top voted feature-requests with status-declined
There are many feature-requests with "status-declined" http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-declined
or "by design", that have high number of votes.
They should be considered for ...
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Is this a pattern of “Lazy Moderation”? [duplicate]
If even there is anything like "Lazy Moderation" this sure is not rightly worded by myself. But why are so many of these flags I do on obvious VLQ QA accepted as helpful? I also need to ask the other ...
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Why was this 'not-an-answer' flag declined? [duplicate]
I flagged this answer as Not An Answer (NAA), because while this does point the OP in the direction of the correct answer, the answer as written should be a comment.
In the event the answer gets ...
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One user is putting another user in the pillory on his profile page. Is it really ok?
I found a user's profile, where the user puts another (already suspended) user in the pillory in his description. It is not me, but I think this behavior is not ok.
So I flagged it, but my flag got ...
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Declined “off topic” flag confusion
I try to pride myself on being fair and efficient when raising flags on SO and am trying to keep as high of a ratio for helpful:disputed(and now declined) flags as possible. I raised one today for a ...
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Declined Not an Answer flag [duplicate]
First, I apologize for yet another declined flag post.
However, this question specifically states: "I don't need to be able to go from string to value again." And this answer specifically answers ...
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Why was this flag declined? [duplicate]
I flagged this answer on StackOverflow because it has absolutely nothing to do with the question that was asked. The comment that was given was:
declined - flags should not be used to indicate ...
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Why answering own question with techical mistake is an answer? [duplicate]
I believe I couldn't explain my question with this title, please feel free to update it.
In earlier today, I flag this answer as not an answer.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/15911344/447156
This ...
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Should I continue flagging for this kind of problem?
Generally I flag for the users who do/get false serial upvoting. Since now I have found many users getting upvoting. Generally I do flag for a moderator attention for this kind of actions. I found ...
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A non-constructive flag declined on a non-constructive post
I flagged the question http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/175204/212576 as a Non constructive one at ~3 AM IST(2013-04-04 20:40:46Z). It was declined by a moderator; yet, the post/question was closed 2 ...
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Flag on nonsense rejected, and I don't know why [duplicate]
Take a look at this answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/11898022/1709587
It doesn't seem like any kind of attempt to answer the question, and it's hard to guess at how it came into being at all. The ...
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Flagged needed mod attention, question closed by mod, but flag declined?
I couldn't find anything specific regarding this as all flag questions seem to address the flag in particular, that said:
I usually wouldn't post anything like this as it is just a flag, and the ...
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Why was my flag for “too localized” declined, but the question closed with the “too localized” reason?
I flagged this question as too localized. Today I looked at my flagging history and saw that my flag was declined with the message
flagging questions to beg for help is abuse of the flagging ...
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Flag: “Please don't misuse the offensive flag on posts like this”
Yesterday, I flagged Soft keyboard is active listener as "not a real question" because the question was not in proper quality.
The flag has been declined by a moderator; however, the question ...
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Why was a flag on this “I have this problem too” answer declined?
This answer is, in my view, an "I have this problem too" post, but my flag as "Not an answer" was declined.
The text of the answer is:
I also have this problem with Samsung galaxy Tab 2 (with ...
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Flag was declined for exact duplicate, but clearly it is an exact duplicate
So I flagged this question here Conditional CSS for IE10 only as a dupe of this quesetion here How do I target only IE10 for certain situations like IE-specific CSS or IE-specific JavaScript?
In my ...
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A flagged post was declined, how do we deal with what may be deemed as “incorrect”?
Hmm okay, I know moderator's actions are final, but are we allowed to question their decision?
Case in point is HERE
Now, I flagged that as very low quality (Another had already flagged it as NAA), ...
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Moderator declined an altogether wrong answer
I recently flagged this answer, used the other option and put the following as the text:
This answer is accepted, but completely wrong.
And got this as the response:
declined - flags should ...
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Why was my flag (too localized) on my own question declined?
I asked this question a while back: Why do I get an Access Violation in atio6axx.dll when calling glBindBuffer?
I ended up never finding the answer, but I rewrote most of it with some help and the ...
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Categorized views in past flags (helpful/declined/disputed)
I like to know it when I do or see something wrong. So I really like our flagging history (x moderator attention flags, y deemed helpful, z declined, etc.)
I specifically find the declined / disputed ...
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An answer to a wrong question: flag was declined
A user posted an answer to a question (now deleted) in which he asked a totally different question. Some time later, he posted another answer where he gave an answer to his question.
I flagged his ...
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Request to mark bountied question as a duplicate of another
This question's problem is identical to this one (with accepted answer)*. However, I cannot vote to close it as a duplicate, because there's a bounty on it.
According to this meta post, the only way ...
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Having issues with declined flags, I don't get it right
I've just wanted to ask this question:
Difference between declined and disputed
Than I've found this question which is too similar to what I have What is the difference between disputed and ...
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Why is this answer not “not an answer”?
Usually when I get a declined flag I can look at it and say, "OK, that makes sense." This one I don't get. It was in the 10k tools and had one "not an answer" flag on it. I agreed with it and flagged ...
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Flagged question for low quality declined - was I wrong to flag it?
I came across a question yesterday that consisted of a single sentence (with poor grammar to boot), followed by a load of poorly formatted code. I flagged it as low quality and it has since received ...
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Custom flag incorrectly declined
I flagged this question ("convert my perl code to PHP") as "Too localized and off topic". My flag was declined.
The reason I flagged it that way instead of using the closing tool is that I had used ...
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Flag for migration declined
This is the question: Is this a good way to code a struct for logged locks via the 'using' construct?
I have flagged it with: "belongs to codereview.stackexchange.com"
My flag was declined with:
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My flag has been declined, yet moderators did what I asked them to do. What gives?
This question was closed by vote as "not a real question", because the title has not been very descriptive. I improved the title, and put in a flag asking moderators to reopen the question. The ...
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Flagged potential double account - got declined because double accounts are not forbidden [duplicate]
Today (Wednesday) I flagged a question for the following reason (names anonymized) :
Most probably again a double account of user ** (stackoverflow.com/users/*/). This question uses the same ...
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Declined flag in helpful flags [duplicate]
In my helpful flags (on profile page), there is a declined flag, which doesn't seem right.
Is this a bug?
Here's the flag:
This flag comes in my helpful flags
I did realize that the flag was not ...
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Only show unhelpful flags when clicking unhelpful flag count
On user accounts, there is a total count of a user's flags in the following format
[total flag count] ([unhelpful flag count])
Both the total flag count and unhelpful flag counts link to ...
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“Not an answer” flag incorrectly declined
I flagged this answer as "not an answer", because it isn't.
I was in two minds whether to flag it, but only because it might be seen as sour grapes on my part (which I don't think is the case). ...
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Reasons to decline flag
In related to, but not only because of declination of my flag ([Note2]) I wonder if moderators shouldn't be pushed to select/write in the reason why they declined the flag. This would give users ...
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Flag for copy and paste answer declined
This is the question: C# XNA - Read .txt file and create 2D array
This is the answer I have flagged: flag
And finally this is an accepted answer: accepted answer
The accepted answer is from ...
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Allow us to decline custom chat flags
Recently I've noticed a few custom flags (mostly coming from a particular room), where a user custom flags a message just to get the attention of a site-specific mod. (e.g "reopen this question plz", ...
