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    I was not aware of this practice, and I'm a little surprised that a Meta.SE recommendation for such flagging would exist. It seems to me the sort of thing that might have varying validity from one SE Community to another. At Math.SE we do have a Meta.MSE thread where solicitations to Reopen can be posted, and of course the casting of one Reopen vote will put a Question into the Reopen Review Queue. Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 21:15
  • Note that the first linked source dates back to before Meta.SO was separately created from Meta.SE. In that sense it should be considered as a Community-specific practice recommendation. Commented Sep 19, 2016 at 21:20
  • @hardmath Some of the linked sources are indeed quite old and may reflect a limitation of the system at the time. Still, the last one was posted well after the reopen review queue was introduced so that can't be it entirely. Also, I doubt the SO community would recommend this practice today; the reopen review queue helps shift the work away from the moderators yet the SO reopen review queue often has a non-zero number of posts in the queue. This despite the fact that there are many more users who can vote to reopen than there are moderators. Commented Sep 20, 2016 at 6:24
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    Related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/283993/… Commented Sep 20, 2016 at 9:06
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    @MonicaCellio Thanks, I didn't realize it was in the help center, too! I've edited that into my question and upvoted yours. Commented Sep 20, 2016 at 14:01
  • Would it be possible for the mod to add it to the reopen queue without endorsing it for reopen themselves, and explain to the OP that they "don't have specific understanding of the topic" and will rely upon the wisdom of the crowd, marking the flag as helpful in this case? Commented Sep 23, 2016 at 1:42
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    @MarkHurd In general, not that I'm aware of, though that would be a great course of action if the moderator thought the question might be reopen-able and just wasn't sure. The easiest way to put the question into the reopen queue would be to cast a reopen vote...except that moderators' reopen votes are binding. If the question hasn't already been sent to the reopen queue by an edit then a moderator could theoretically edit the question to kick it into the queue. But that's not always the case and the OP would be better suited to editing anyway. Commented Sep 23, 2016 at 1:51
  • As I was starting to (gasp!) draft an answer, it occurred to me you don't mention marking such a custom request as disputed. Is that even a possibility? Commented Sep 27, 2016 at 17:06
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    @hardmath I don't think so. This is a custom flag, which is not in the list of scenarios that could result in "disputed". I have to mark the flag as either "helpful" or "declined", although I can dismiss the flag as "helpful". The last time I handled such a flag I chose "no action needed" (dismissed it), wrote a custom reply telling the user to ask on meta (because I wasn't sure), and marked it "helpful". That flag has a "helpful" result on the user's flags page. Commented Sep 27, 2016 at 17:22