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Possible Duplicate: Moderators should see the post as I flagged it, not the edited version Allow moderators to reverse and/or nullify flag decisions My flag weight went down from 725 to 705 today, ...
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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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Original question: Do moderators see the flagged post as I flagged it, or do they see the current version? Since it is the current version, I request making it the flagged version instead. The ...
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I flagged a post and (choose one) my flag was marked as helpful, yet nothing was done my flag was marked as declined, yet the post was deleted/edited/closed Why? Return to FAQ index
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Flag weight is the total number of flags marked as valid helpful minus the number of flags marked as invalid declined for a given user. That number is used… … well, it's shown on a user's profile, ...
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Yesterday I had flagged mysql-select-query, question as "Not a Real Question", and my flag was declined. But when I checked the question today, it had been closed as "Not a Real Question". I don't ...
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First a bit of rant history: When I became a moderator, there were two responses to flags: valid or invalid. There was no formal definition of these two terms; I took “valid” to mean “you were right ...
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Citizen Patrol has this description: First flagged post. In other words, anyone who flags anything for any reason gets this badge. Pekka says: Making people familiar with the flagging function is ...
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People asked about other types of flags (e.g. low quality) but I am asking a question about the "Not a real question" flag. I flagged a question as not a real question. The flag was marked invalid ...
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First of all, I understand that flag weight is not like reputation, and in the grand scheme of things, you can participate perfectly well in the community regardless of your flag weight, but theres ...
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Possible Duplicate: Flag declined, but question closed for the same reason So I flagged this question as exact duplicate yesterday (my time) and today I came back and noted that the flag was "...
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I flagged https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2261023/onupdate-doesnt-get-called-on-device as "not a real question," since the OP answered it himself as "I don't know what has happened but it started ...
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I flagged an answer that was made 8 hours ago from my flagging and was missing half of it. use this code: was the answer So I flagged it and after 2 hours I saw someone had added code to it: use ...
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I recently ran across a couple of open poll/subjective questions. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5945904/what-are-your-most-useful-own-library-extensions Best Practices for Concurrent CRM 2011 ...
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Looking for some 10k tools guidance... If I come across a Very Low Quality flag on a question that I think needs to be closed as it stands, but could potentially be edited by the OP to make it okay, ...
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