Timeline for Should moderator flags be available to close an older question for users who already have vote-to-close rights?
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| Oct 8, 2012 at 17:50 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=159834 by developer User.Id=811 | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 8:07 | comment | added | yannis | Checked your SO profile quickly, you seem more than competent in JS, perhaps an easy solution would be a userscript, similar to / based on Pro Forma Comments for moderation attention flags. Write a few thorough messages once for your more typical flags (for example: "This is a very old question that probably won't get any more attention, please close") and only type when you want to make slight changes to specifics. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 6:55 | comment | added | jscs | I've got 1700 helpful flags, and probably somewhere around 50% of those were custom flags whose text was just "not a real question". I raised these flags in situations like those you describe: low-visibility questions that needed to be closed. Aside from believing this to be a perfectly appropriate use of flags, my understanding was that when the custom flag reason was identical to the text of an established close reason, the post would go into the 10k flag queue, possibly easing moderators' workloads. I do think that making this easier would be helpful to everyone. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 5:54 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=159834 by developer User.Id=811 | |
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| Oct 8, 2012 at 5:14 | answer | added | Adam LearStaffMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:56 | comment | added | jscs | Closely related: Should one still flag questions after getting vote-to-close rights?, Should I flag poll questions or is vote to close enough?, Is it an abuse of the flagging system to cast both a close vote and flag?, Make the “Close questions” Privilege FAQ mention that moderators don't do the dirty job of closing for you | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:56 | answer | added | animusonStaffMod | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:55 | history | edited | user159834 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:54 | comment | added | Mysticial | One way to partially solve this problem is to change the CV decay algorithm. Instead of 100 views all time, it should be X views from logged in 3k users after the first close vote. That way, the CV should "stick" long enough for the question to go into the CV queue. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:47 | answer | added | George StockerMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:34 | comment | added | user159834 | @animuson: I'm suggesting that there be generic "flag to close" options, perhaps after a certain amount of time. Exactly what < 3K users get. Apparently, at least one mod does not realize that these don't exist, at all, so there is obviously some amount of confusion, probably not limited to this single moderator. And, in addition, I feel I could help moderate more efficiently if I didn't have to type out this generic text each time. | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:32 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | I really don't see anything wrong with using the other field to explain it. I wouldn't say the moderator expected you to use a canned reason, but more just didn't look to see that you weren't capable of using the canned reason. Ultimately, your flag was declined because the moderator disagreed. What's the problem with the system? | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:29 | answer | added | slugster | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:26 | comment | added | user159834 | @animuson: It's not that I was out of close votes or anything like that, it's that there is no such thing as a "flag to close" for users who have VTC rights. Period. It's only available for users with under 3K rep. I'm suggesting there should be a better way to "flag to close", ignore the validity of this exact flag, it's just what brought my attention to this issue. Is there something I can do to clarify my post? | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:21 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | I flag to close things as well. It sounds to me like you may have just misjudged one... and the moderator probably didn't realize you were over the vote-to-close threshold... | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:13 | comment | added | user159834 | I was hoping not to, because surely it will detract attention from the issue at hand. If you can see my flags, it should be about the tenth down. Is it relevant to what I'm suggesting? | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 3:10 | comment | added | George Stocker Mod | Can you include a link to the specific question you're referring to? | |
| Oct 8, 2012 at 2:48 | history | asked | user159834 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |