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The flag itself doesn't send out any notification.

If the answer is deleted or converted to a comment and the moderator who does that leaves a comment, the user will be notified of that comment.

I typically leave comments on most not-an-answers that I remove if they're recently posted. There's not much point in commenting on something that's over a year old, for example.

You can certainly leave a comment of your own, especially since there may be enough time for the user to see it before a moderator sees your flag. You can use a handy userscript to store and reuse the most common comments. It comes with a few pre-loaded that you can use right away, but I like to edit them to make the language more "mine".

The flag itself doesn't send out any notification.

If the answer is deleted or converted to a comment and the moderator who does that leaves a comment, the user will be notified of that comment.

I typically leave comments on most not-an-answers that I remove if they're recently posted. There's not much point in commenting on something that's over a year old, for example.

You can certainly leave a comment of your own, especially since there may be enough time for the user to see it before a moderator sees your flag. You can use a handy userscript to store and reuse the most common comments. It comes with a few pre-loaded that you can use right away, but I like to edit them to make the language more "mine".

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The flag itself doesn't send out any notification.

If the answer is deleted or converted to a comment and the moderator who does that leaves a comment, the user will be notified of that comment.

I typically leave comments on most not-an-answers that I remove if they're recently posted. There's not much point in commenting on something that's over a year old, for example.

You can certainly leave a comment of your own, especially since there may be enough time for the user to see it before a moderator sees your flag. You can use a handy userscript to store and reuse the most common comments. It comes with a few pre-loaded that you can use right away, but I like to edit them to make the language more "mine".