Penalty for flagging questions/answers

Question

First of all let's read the help:

If you see anything in the system that is evil, weird, or in any way exceptional and deserving of moderator attention for any reason…flag it! That’s the primary job of a moderator: to look at every flagged post, and take action if necessary.

My problem (penalty). Then I flagged an answer as "low quality", I get the ban for a month. As for me, when I see the answer/question on Stack Overflow without code examples or without formatting - it is low quality or off-topic. Stack Overflow is about code and code problems, there is no place here for discussion "I push the button and was something strange".

I failed on this question: ITC.apps.validation.pre release build missing.

And I don't understand why @bender answer is not "low quality".

p.s., It was my 3-4 fail today, but I was reviewed ~ 100-120 questions/answers and was also was successful on 4-5 tests. May be problem in this? But I still think that marked answer is low quality. And that month is too much.

p.p.s., One of my answers addEventListener on custom object and one of my questions HTML file input control with capture and accept attributes works wrong?. This is quality.

p.p.p.s., My flag statistics:

618 moderator attention flags
5   waiting for review
472 deemed helpful
10  declined
131 disputed

I just think that my flagging should be free from the ban.

Answer 1

I flagged an answer as low quality, I get the ban for the month

Assuming that you were banned from flagging/review for a month (as opposed to any other form of banning), this probably means you should look at how you flag posts and find alternatives to flagging/reviewing.

I see the answer/question on Stack Overflow without code examples or without formatting - it is low quality or off-topic

Not automatically so, no.

And if you see a post that is lacking formatting? Suggest an edit to improve the formatting - that's much more constructive.

If you see an answer that doesn't contain code - well... not all answers need to have code in order to be useful or actually answer the question.

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As a side note:

deserving of moderator attention

Means - really, really, really horrible. Something that needs a human being with mod powers to look at.

If the issue is something that can be dealt with by the community (voting to close, delete, edits, community flags and such), then it is not something deserving of moderator attention (in particular - be careful of using the "other" flag reason).

The moderators, particularly on the larger sites, are busy - they have lots to do and using moderator flags for stuff that can be handled by the community is a misuse of their time.