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Comments about homework cause a lot of friction. In the interest of making it easier to cut off the comment wars in the bud, please add homework to the list of words that make a comment be deletable by a single flag.
Now that the homework tag is being phased out, I'm flagging comments like “add the homework tag” as obsolete as I find them. Making this one-click would lighten the load for moderators.
We're about 1/4 of the way through the tag cleanup. This would still help.
@TheEstablishment: No, that's not enough. Some people who find it annoying isn't enough to go and add a special flag for just that kind of thing that annoys you.
I agree that once the determination has been made, one way or the other, the comments can be safely removed. But I don't think a special flag is needed for this. It's no different than any other comment that is no longer necessary.
@NicolBolas: I assume this would make a comment be deletable by a single flag, not be a new flag reason or type of flag, similar to how comments with the words "accept rate" are nuked with only 1 flag. I'm just saying this because your comment there has some upvotes, as if people aren't sure how this would most likely be implemented.
– user159834
Sep 16, 2012 at 22:07
what happens if someone's name is "Foo Homework"? and I ping him like @foo homework hello world?
homework
tag has been phased out on most sites, is-this-homework comments have become a lot rarer, so this request is moot.