Questions tagged [flags]
For questions about the post flagging process, how flags are handled, etc. For chat flags, use [chat-flags] instead. For comment flags, use [comment-flags] instead.
28 questions from the last 365 days
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How to report malicious voting? [closed]
I was tried flag post, but all the flags was be denied, how can i report malicious voting? What need i to tell to moderator on flag description? I need some help.
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We have a bad case of socks on ELL, please help [migrated]
I suspect there are at least eight sockpuppets operating on ELL. I've downvoted, I've flagged, I've commented but to no avail. After 18 hours of abuse, their accounts are still working, and "...
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Allow the user to view a deleted post if it has a pending flag [duplicate]
Currently, if you have a pending flag on a deleted post and you are <10k, you can't retract it anymore (at least not via UI), so it's basically stuck until someone reviews it.
This happens mainly ...
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Please could we have a new standard flag reason for LLM generated posts [duplicate]
The current best advice to custom flag on discovery of AI Gen posts is to flag with a custom reason. This is for the purposes of enabling moderators to be aware and take appropriate action (e.g. ...
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Confusing declined flags: proposed actions taken despite declining
As I was reviewing my flagging history, I noticed multiple flags that I raised on posts with the status-review tag were declined with the generic decline message*. Interestingly, the intended actions (...
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Is Stack Exchange planning to use AI to flag, review, and draft posts?
I just saw this rather concerning blog post. Amongst other things, it says that Stack Exchange is
exploring ways in which AI and ML [(Machine Learning)] can assist community users in writing drafts ...
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Why are my only options "edit" and "decline" (when "edit" doesn't work) for a flag on a deleted comment?
It looks like a comment being deleted no longer clears any comment flags (at least for duplicate auto comments), but there are only two options remaining (edit/decline), one of which doesn't even work:...
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Allow moderators to change the outcome of a handled flag
Per staff request, I'm posting this as a standalone feature request:
Please allow moderators to change the outcome of a handled flag, such as when they accidentally/prematurely decline a flag they ...
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Global Flag Summary userscript is no longer working due to rate-limiting changes
When running the Global Flag Summary userscript, 57 out of the 244 sites it calls to were successful, and the rest produced error status codes. Most produced 404 status codes, but towards the end of ...
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Allow us to flag reviews
Please allow us to flag reviews in the review queues. Possible use cases/Flag options for this could include:
Incorrect reviews/Suspected robo-reviewing
User persistently spamming queues with ...
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Allow high-rep community members to help review No Longer Needed comment flags
TL;DR Please, allow very-high rep users (50,000 rep on "full" rep levels, 10,000 rep on "beta" rep levels, and 5,000 rep on "private beta" rep levels) to help review No ...
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Reconsider allowing flags on historically locked posts
This is revisiting a feature request from 2013 and 2015, which was declined.
A historical lock is used to retain very good or extremely useful posts that are not on-topic for a site. These questions ...
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Extend asterisk next to close/delete vote to flags
We recently got an asterisk (*) next to the close and delete vote to indicate you've already voted on that question/answer:
Why is there an asterisk next to the close vote total? E.g. Close (1*)
Make ...
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What's the impact on a recipient user account if a "unfriendly or unkind" flag is accepted?
I read:
The flag ["unfriendly or unkind"] if accepted has quite a lot of impact on the account which has been flagged.
What's the impact on a recipient user account if a "unfriendly ...
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Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange points system exploit discovered [duplicate]
There are a number of users who are gaining points by either creating posts and having their friends upvote, or else they are copying another (often accepted) answer, and then rephrasing it. Although ...
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Unable to load flag dialog popup on some deleted questions
In the last ten days, I've been unable to load the flag dialog on two recently deleted questions:
Question #402226 today and
Question #402001 ten days ago
Instead of displaying the flag popup when I ...
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Double quotes incorrectly encoded in flag resolution tooltip
When moderator adds custom description to the processed flag, such text is visible as a tooltip on post's flag page (link for staff to reproduce the issue):
In case of double quotes they're rendered ...
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Flagging deleted post or clicking on inbox item fails and brings up an error 500 on browser console
I mistakenly told a new user that their post was not supposed to be here. I messed up. The user self deleted, which while in their credit, is because I made a mistake. This isn't fair
I'd like to make ...
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Error on flags page
When I try reviewing my outstanding flag status , I go to my profile page and hit the "flags" link.
I am observing a bug, as I am only getting to a blank page
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Allow editing already-submitted “In need of moderator intervention” flag comments
After I submit text for the flagging reason “In need of moderator intervention”, it's not possible to edit it.
So my feature-request is: after submitting the "In need of moderator intervention&...
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Remove the 'resetting any rude or abusive flags' note from the rollback tooltip
The tooltip for the rollback button in a revision history is:
sets the current revision to this version of the post, resetting any "rude or abusive" flags
However, the 'resetting of red ...
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Why am I unable to re-flag a post after my previous flag has been attended to?
According to the status-completed Meta SE post “Once a flag is cleared from the mod queue, the same post cannot be re-flagged”, it says that "Once a mod has attended to your previous flag, you ...
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Flag as duplicate from another Stack Exchange site? [duplicate]
I recently noticed a question that was asked by the same user, the exact same content, at the same time (within minutes) across two Stack Exchange sites - Stack Overflow and Geographic Information ...
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Is it possible to require pre-approval for content on an SE site? If not, how can I deal with a site with too much hostile content?
The comments on this Politics SE answer are but one of example of how argumentative and caustic people can be to each other specifically on that SE site compared to other SE sites.
I am open to the ...
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As a moderator, "Delete" in the review queues clears custom flags that you may not have seen
Outside of the queue, it makes sense that a moderator deletion would clear any custom flags, since the wafflebar is at the bottom showing all the pending flags and a flag count for all flags. In ...
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Can we make the spam flag description more clear?
Currently, the description of the spam flag reads as follows:
Exists only to promote a product or service, does not disclose the author's affiliation.
This wording is very confusing because it's ...
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I suggest to do a flag button inside an edit block [duplicate]
There isn't an individual flag for edits: we can't use a special flag relating to someone who edits a post of another user. Now the only way to draw a moderator's attention about someone's edit is to ...
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Why was this answer deleted and marked as offensive? [closed]
This is the question:
And this is the answer which was deleted and marked as offensive:
But checking the revision
The content was:
Which is nothing offensive.
Also, the answer is valid because AWS ...
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