Questions tagged [flag-reasons]
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Add a "Spam" flag reason for comments
Sometimes I see spam comments, and I would like to see a "Spam" reason for flagging comments.
But now there are only these reasons:
My feature request is: add an "Spam" flag ...
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Feedback request: Proposed new flagging and moderation workflow for plagiarism
UPDATE
We've built and will be releasing a plagiarism flag on 22 March 2023 (on SO only). For more info, see this MSO post - Plagiarism flag and moderator tooling launching to Stack Overflow
A while ...
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Is there a difference between these two flagging reasons or is this a bug? [duplicate]
When flagging a post as needs improvement because of a community-specific reason, I get a list of reasons to choose from. Two of those reasons (given below) seem to imply the same thing.
This ...
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Change the reason of a flag to a question
It happened that I flagged a question for a wrong reason and then I want to change my reason. So I know that I have the possibility to cancel my flag using the 'Retract Flag' button. But after ...
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Flag modal shows incorrect selection [duplicate]
I am aware that when we try to report a post, it cannot be done twice. But starting last week, I am experiencing this crazy thing. It shows I raised two types of report for the same post. Kindly have ...
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Are the two options for marking a post duplicate same? [duplicate]
Is there any difference between which of the following methods you use to mark a question duplicate?
I am flagging to report this question as... ▶ A Duplicate
I am flagging to report this question as....
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Change the spam flag reason
Often we see discussions of when spam is spam for the purpose of flagging a question.
Often, when users see vandalism or other inappropriate posts, they feel they have to flag it as spam, which is ...
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New flagging dialog has a duplicate for duplicate
We've changed the flagging format from today(AFAIK) as below,
looks good.
But, when I select it should be closed for another reason...
I can see the same reason duplicate on the top.
What ...
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Flag declined with a confusing or unrelated reason
I've flagged an answer to moderators attention a few days back, because what I've deemed the appropriate action, couldn't be performed by me.
Note: Meanwhile the question was migrated to http://...
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Is it a desirable action to flag self-answers which are obviously rep farming?
This is specifically about answering your own question. This perfectly legitimate and valuable question was asked on Apr 10 '10 at 3:16 and was answered soon after (at Apr 10 '10 at 7:59).
Then on ...
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Missing option in flag popup [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is the flag option “it doesn't belong here” missing?
I wanted to flag https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7658812/benefits-of-white-labelling as off-topic, ...
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Offensive flag declined for the wrong reason
I flagged a question as offensive, figuring that it may not get the 6 votes needed to shut it down, but it was the right thing to do (no, I won't point out which one, since that would derail the ...
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Proposed flag decline reasons?
As a precursor to adding decline reasons for suggested edits we have added decline reasons for moderator flags.
Because flagging for moderator attention can result in some fairly severe unilateral ...
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"Flag post" link is deactivated when changing flag reasons [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Flag a Question dialog bug
Here's a tiny annoyance. Steps to reproduce:
Find a bad answer (or question, let's assume an answer here)
Click the "flag" link
Click "other". Note ...
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