Questions tagged [specific-flag]
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37 questions
-2 votes
1 answer
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removal of my quite involved question that I believe had value [duplicate]
I asked this question after finding the identity$$ \sum_{k=i}^{j-n}\left\{{k\atop i}\right\}\sum_{P,Q\in\mathbb N^n\atop{\forall d,P_d\ge Q_d\atop{\Sigma P=j-n\atop\Sigma Q=k}}}\prod_{d=1}^n{P_d\...
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-4 votes
1 answer
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Moderator Declined Flag to Merge Questions due to Lack of Evidence to Support It
Yesterday, as per this thread, I flagged this question to be merged with this one since they were exact duplicates and the answers to the duplicate question would still make perfect sense to the ...
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4 votes
1 answer
133 views
Why has my flagging option "very low quality" disappeared?
I've seen a couple minutes ago a post that, in my opinion, needs improvement. I immediately thought of flagging, but when I opened the flag window I noticed the option "very low quality" ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Is it possible to flag users who use photos of very young children, or is there an age limit for Math.SE?
In Stack Exchange communities, like Math.SE, are users allowed to have profile photos of children? I would like to know whether or not it is correct to flag those profiles where there are pictures of ...
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3 votes
1 answer
87 views
Differences between duplicate flags raised from different entries
When flagging a question, there are five options in the primary menu, "spam", "rude or abusive", "needs improvement", "a duplicate" and "in need of moderator intervention". In "needs improvement" ...
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2 votes
1 answer
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Why is this not off-topic on meta?
I accidentally clicked into Derivate vs. Derivative and flagged it as "off-topic". From my perspective, it does not appear to be about Mathematics Stack Exchange or the software that powers the Stack ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Disputed flag for a question posted as an answer
A few days ago I flagged this answer as Not An Answer (NAA) where the user actually says that "I just observed this numerically and wondered why". That is, the ...
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3 votes
1 answer
179 views
When is it advised to *not* flag a non-answer as "not-an-answer" but as a VLQ instead
Just got a "Your last flag was declined - please review it before flagging this post!" caution while flagging this as not-an-answer, which then led me to the flag-summary page, where I found a couple ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Why was this flag I started disputed?
See https://math.stackexchange.com/a/588247/81560. The question is "Good Online Resources to learn Multivariate Statistics?" Multivariate statistics is a very broad field, including many subtopics. ...
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2 votes
1 answer
221 views
Why were the constructive comments deleted along with one poor comment?
I flagged as unconstructive a spam comment to my answer of mine. I see that all the comments were deleted --- one of which was heavily upvoted and contributed greatly to the answer. Is there ...
- 8,121
2 votes
1 answer
145 views
Why was this question deleted and not closed?
I flagged this question as unclear what you're asking (the problem was later fixed) and my flag was moments ago marked as helpful, however, instead of the post being closed as unclear what you're ...
- 3,614
-2 votes
1 answer
133 views
Flag declined on popular yet broad question—why?
I was perusing the top questions, and noticed this question, which, as highly-scoring as it was, seemed very broad. I wasn't sure whether it was too broad or primarily opinion-based, but I knew it ...
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8 votes
2 answers
272 views
Flagged report status of "disputed"
I flagged a question as "rude" because it used the letters that spelled a choice Anglo-Saxon expletive beginning with f as the four elements of an example set. Seemed unnecessary and deliberately ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Why can't I flag old posts as "very low quality"
I am currently contemplating an answer from March 2015 that has an impressive score of -19 + 9. I tried to flag it as "Very low quality", but that this option is not available. (I also downvoted the ...
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4 votes
2 answers
541 views
Useless crankpot answers
Recently I raised a flag on an answer: Clearly this user is a crankpot; just see the deleted answers by him and the currently accepted answer also by him, and the comments he made saying that this ...
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