Flagging is the process of bringing a post to a community moderator's attention for any reason.
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When is a post “very low quality”?
At the question
When you randomly shuffle a deck of cards, what is the probability that it is a unique permutation never before configured?,
I had flagged the answer
The chances of a particular ...
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When is a comment “not constructive?”
I recently flagged the following comment
Are ruler and compass allowed? User64494
to this question.
However, it was declined by the moderators which leaves me wondering when a comment is "not ...
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Retracting flags
I flagged the first version of this answer for obvious reasons.
After the edit, the flag is of no use.
Is it possible to retract it? If not, this is a feature request.
Assuming moderators would ...
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Flag comments about the blacklisted [graph] tag as obsolete?
I flagged the following comment (in this question) as obsolete:
since the graph tag has been blacklisted (see Let's blacklist the [graph] tag). This flag was declined.
It seems like a ...
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What action to take on identical questions from the same user?
It sometimes happens that the same user posts exactly the same question twice in a row.
Examples:
1 2. user asked twice for the probability of choosing 90% of the colors from a collection of ...
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Migrating a question to other exchange sites? [duplicate]
Why does for flagging in order to migrate a post to another stack exchange sites, just meta, stats and physics exists?
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What's with “selfclear” resolution of comment flags?
First off, some positive news. We now have our comment flag history visible on the user page http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/users/flag-summary/userID. I'm sure ...
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What Happened to Helpful Flags Counter on User Page?
What happened to the 'Helpful Flags' counter / link that was available on your user page as it seems to have disappeared today?
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How to view flagged comments?
Today I wanted to see a list of the comments (rather than questions and answers) I had flagged (recently). I could not find any way of doing this. Is there an obvious way which I am missing?
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When to flag comments
I recently flagged as "rude or offensive" the comment
As the tone should suggest, he’s a crank. It’s a hysterical screed with a few nuggets of fact surrounded by a great deal of nonsense. E.g., ...
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What should the offensive and spam flag be used for?
Spam flags and offensive flags are strong weapons: they automatically decrease the points of a post, and with enough flags the post is deleted.
On MathOverflow, it is a custom to flag crank posts ...
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Preferred course of action for flagging of multiple obsolete comments
One of the recurring things on the main site is comments about the content of a question or an answer.
Once the question/answer is edited to reflect these comments, they are often rendered obsolete. ...
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Flagging problems
I've flagged two question which were closed, but both flags were declined. The questions and the moderator answers are:
Please help me understand, what is sweet: X or sugar [closed]
declined - Since ...
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Number of helpful flags in elections
A question I had about the "helpful flags"-field in the ongoing elections:
Would it be an idea to not only list the number of flags deemed helpful, but also the total number of flags (or the number ...
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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 ...
