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Flagging to close shows counter next to "flag"
If I (as a user with vote-to-close privileges) click "flag" on a question, I see the ability to flag as "does not belong here, or is a duplicate".
Is this a bug? I'm quite sure I ...
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Don't dismiss custom flags when a question is closed by a moderator
Back in 2013, the system was changed so that when a question was closed, any custom moderator flags on it would not be automatically dismissed. However, this seems to only work when a question is ...
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Flagging a post before submitting the 5th close vote always results in flag being marked helpful
Okay, there's nice workaround to get some free flag weight!
What you need
3k minimal,
10k for the easiest way
Way to reproduce it
Find question with 4 close votes (10k here)
Flag that question
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Able to mark own close flag as helpful after reaching close votes privileges
I flagged this Lifehacks question a few days ago for being off-topic. This morning, I received enough upvotes to obtain the Close Vote privileges. My flag was still pending:
I went to the question ...
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Cannot flag as "should be closed..." after removing a "duplicate" flag
After removing a duplicate flag, I am unable to flag the question as "should be closed...". I am guessing this is because the duplicate flag is under "should be closed...". Is this intended? If so, ...
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Cannot open flag dialog, incorrect error message after casting final close vote on question
After I cast the final close vote against a question, if I attempt to flag it, the flag dialog refuses to open, and gives me an incorrect error message:
This question has been put on-hold since you ...
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Why didn't this question go through close votes review?
I flagged this question as off-topic, but my flag aged away. Since I'm not aware of Meta having the same problem with close votes as Stack Overflow, I was curious to see why my flag aged away, so I ...
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The generic off-topic flag reason has different wording in the Android app
In the Android app, when flagging a question as off-topic, a generic option appears in the list of off-topic reasons, at the next-to-last position before migration or at the last position if migration ...
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The new closing window doesn't take into account if the question has an open bounty
I was inspecting the new dupe-closing window trying to find something interesting beyond the documented features in it... Haven't found anything interesting yet, but stumbled into a bug.
Let's create ...
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Links to the help in off-topic reason in closing and flagging dialogs became raw
as you can see (and click it to see some more raw links). This happened to all sites.
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Vote to close not possible because it was flagged [duplicate]
I recently hit 3k on SO and now I can vote to close. I have an extensive flagging history with some of them are marked as waiting for review.
I had to discover that the flag from my pre-3k prevents ...
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Should flagging a question for closure prevent close-voting?
Back in April, I flagged a post as "not a real question". The post was subsequently closed and reopened, then closed again and finally just reopened a 2nd time a short time ago.
I still firmly ...
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Can't flag or close questions on all sites
Whenever I try to flag or close a question here, when clicking the submit button the button gets disabled, three dots animating and nothing really happens.
JS console show a single error:
Flagging:
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The flag/close pop-ups seem to be broken as they just keeps loading for too long [duplicate]
I'm experiencing this on both MSE and SO now. I had 3 different tabs open where I was voting to close 2 posts in 2 tabs and flagging a post as spam in the third. Upon clicking the close/flag buttons, ...
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"Flags remaining today"/"Votes remaining today" tip only displayed for the number, not for the whole caption
If I click onto "flag" link I see the following dialog:
Note the circled part. If I move the mouse pointer to number of flags (58 in a square) I get a tip displayed but if I move the pointer to "...
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Number of close votes in the wrong place after voting to close
I was marking this question as a duplicate. After doing so, I saw this:
close | flag (4)
while the question had 4 close votes at that point.
If I manage to reproduce this, I'll try to take a ...
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Voting to close a question makes it show as "on hold" even when it is not
I was checking the flagged posts, and I found one with a closing vote; I read it, and I agreed to vote to close it.
Right after I did it, the question was shown as on hold.
It is still open, ...
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Let me suggest migration when flagging, to clarify that the flag is not for closing (problem with flagging on meta sites only)
Edit: This problem exists only for meta sites, so I am reclassifying it from a feature request to a bug.
On a site where I have a little over 200 rep, I just wanted to flag a question that I think ...
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Community flags a closed question as commentless after a comment from an off-topic closure [duplicate]
When a moderator closes a question on a beta site, if there is no comment on the question, Community raises a flag:
Please explain the nature of this closed question via a comment
This happens ...
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Close and flag links do nothing on mobile site
This morning (it's about six AM here) I find that I can no longer submit close votes; the link just jumps to the beginning of the page.
I'm on iOS, using a third-party browser called Grazing, but a ...
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Has close-flag behavior changed with new closing overhaul? [duplicate]
It used to be that when a question was flagged for closing, if the question was closed, the flag was automatically marked as "helpful." Since the recent closing overhaul, I have seen at least a couple ...
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"You may only load the flag dialog every 3 seconds" shows up on every click, but the dialog still opens [duplicate]
When reviewing flags in the 10k tools, every click of the flag or disagree button brings up this popup, but the dialog still shows normally on top of it. It's nothing more than an annoyance, but still,...
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EEEK I have temporary powers to view flag count [duplicate]
As a 3K user with close privileges on MSO, if I accidentally flag a question as "It doesn't belong here or is duplicate", my flag is supposed to be automatically converted to a close vote.
However ...
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Voting to close a question after gaining the close privilege should invalidate any pre-privilege flags
This bug is very much an edge case, and here's how it goes:
Flag a post with <3k rep:
2. Earn 3k total rep
3. Go to the Close Votes review queue; observe your flag:
4. Open the review ...
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Close votes are counting as flags (again)
Questions that have been deleted, which I voted to close in addition to flagging, are showing my close votes as if they were flags on MSO.
For instance this question
and this one
Answers ...
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Flag/Close menu won't open after interface update [closed]
I noticed today we got a new interface for closing/flagging. Almost immediately after getting it though, both the close vote and flag menus won't load anymore. The little black dots just go on ...
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Funny thing happened on my way through the review queue
I was reviewing first posts earlier today and something strange happened when I flagged a question NARQ: immediately after submitting the flag, this is what I saw:
I didn't vote to close - I don't ...
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I flagged a post as "very low quality" and it was not the last close vote, but it got marked as "none"
I flagged this question as "very low quality", but the flag got marked as "none"
There is only one close vote on the question! I thought the "none" to a flag was supposed to kick in on the last close ...
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Community ♦ user dismissing close-flags as helpful, stealing credit from mods
It seems like recent changes to the way flags are handled has introduced some strange behavior.
A little bit of background
Users who don't yet have the reputation to vote to close can flag for ...
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Tools -> Flags is showing items that are voted on to close as flags; shows incorrect options
On the flags tab of the 10k tools, items that are voted on to close are shown, along with the reasons the items are being voted on to close, and a button to flag the post:
These items are appearing ...
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