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13 questions linked to/from Let's Remove The Auto Downvote On Validated VLQ Flags (On Questions)
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
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Is the Very Low Quality flag too ambiguous?
The "Very Low Quality" (VLQ) flag reason is really annoying me.
It is the analog to the mommy mommy flag (which my 1.5-year-old child raises quite frequently). It provides no real clue as to what ...
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Why don't we treat rubbish the same as spam?
Spam gets fairly heavily punished - 100 reputation penalty, if I recall correctly, and the content itself gets hidden in the revision history.
Now if we just have some rubbish:
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Rolling question rate limits are now network-wide
When you think of Q&A sites, you think of a place where you come to get answers to your questions. But, where do those answers come from? What doesn't immediately stand out for many folks is that ...
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Add a deactivated "wrong answer" flag option
When I look at the flagging queue I see almost one flag reason only: Not an answer. (At this very moment 440 out of 470 flags!)
I have the feeling it is used wrongly most of the time. Many seem to ...
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What is the reasoning behind limiting "recidivists" to post one question per week?
Anti-Recidivism System currently restricts recreated accounts to "posting only one question per week..."
I would like to understand why this rate was picked, and not, say, once a day or once a month?
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Community downvotes posts that were just fixed
If a post has a low quality score flag on it, it's automatically dismissed as helpful if a user edits it, which results in an automatic Community downvote. I understand (kind of) adding a downvote if ...
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Please provide a flag option clearly designed for gibberish, contentless posts [duplicate]
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What this post would normally receive on its own is 8 "not an answer" flags,...
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Should posts flagged low quality get an automatic downvote from the flagger?
Much has been written about the very low quality flag.
Joel dislikes it. Popular wants it gone. I find it confusing, even after our modifications.
Last week I attempted a change. I set it up so only ...
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Is it time to be rid of automatic down votes on certain closed questions?
Right now, certain close reasons carry automatic downvotes.
The original reason for this was largely to enforce specific quality bans in part because people were not down voting questions. Now that ...
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Do closed questions automatically get downvoted or not?
In April 2011, closing a question for some reasons (then off-topic and not a real question) caused the Community user to downvote the question.
Officially, this feature was removed in August 2013. ...
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Allow us to decline the automatically raised flags
Usually, whenever an automatic flag is incorrectly raised, the moderators on Stack Overflow used to decline the flag. It was really helpful in the case of the Possible Comment Abuse auto flag, as well ...
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When is it not a good idea to rely on automatic handling of low answer quality score flags from the Community user?
The Community user flags some posts with Low Answer Quality Score flag. There are several options to handle such flags:
Approve (with comment)
Reject (with comment)
Resolve flags automatically (no ...
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