Questions tagged [flagging]
Flagging is the process of bringing a question, answer or comment to a community moderator's attention for any reason.
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appealing/reraising a flag when it's declined for reason I disagree with
this answer contains only Mathematica implementations of the expressions occurring in the question, pointing out the equality of two that the question states to be equal. I flagged it, with reason ...
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Why are there two "close as a duplicate" options in the flagging pop-up?
With the recent rework of the "Flag" menu, it now offers two ways to flag a duplicate: by directly selecting the option "closed as a duplicate question", and by selecting the the ...
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What is currently the number of available daily flags on math.SE? Should it be temporarily increased?
By default, a user can use 10 flags per day and the number is then increased based on the reputation and the number of helpful flags - see here: On the recent changes to flagging and limits.1,2 Is ...
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Error while Flagging
I was trying to flag a question when I encountered this error. Perhaps the screenshots will help. As evident from the screenshots, I have enough flags left. Why am I encountering this error? New ...
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User exactly duplicates one of their answers to a question involving $n$ and posts it on one of its duplicates where the value of $n$ is given
If a user exactly duplicates one of their answers to a question involving a general situation (like an unknown constant $n$ and posts it on one of its duplicates that focuses on a specific case of the ...
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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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Merging instead of closing similar questions
How do you solve this equation $ \log_{2}(x) = \sqrt x$? How would you prove $\log_{2}x < \sqrt x$ for $x > 16$? I understand these are duplicate questions in essence. However, I got really ...
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Suggestion for dealing with a comment if it contain the Answer to the question (w/o other answers)
Suggestion for dealing with a comment if it contain the Answer to the question (w/o other answers) If I try to flag a comment there are the following alternatives: harassment / unfriendly / obsolete / ...
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Can I retract a flag on a deleted post?
I flagged a GPT answer for moderator attention on June 21st; I don't think I knew about the moderation strike at the time. This answer has since been deleted, but the flag still registers as pending. ...
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1 answer
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Is flag handling backlogged? [duplicate]
I currently have 7 unhandled comment flags, including two I raised back in May. I also have one unhandled post flag from June 13. Is there a technical issue here that is causing flags to get lost? Or ...
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New user posts 8 answers, all likely AI-generated, in the span of 82 minutes; I think we either need or are close to needing an official policy
According to Xander's answer to a previous question on AI-generated content, posting chatGPT-generated answers without disclosing they are generated by chatGPT is a violation of openAI's terms of ...
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Why can't Math StackExchange questions be flagged as belonging in a site other than math meta, stats, or physics? [duplicate]
I have noticed a few questions that don't belong on math StackExchange, math meta, stats StackExchange, or physics StackExchange. I cannot flag them as belonging in another site, so I just post a ...
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How to correct a duplicate flag?
I initially flagged this question as a duplicate of another question, but then realized the other question was not exactly a duplicate. I then found a better (exact) duplicate, and tried to correct ...
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Flagging comments in mobile version of the site
When I was using the mobile version of the site, I did not find an option to flag comments. Why flagging comments in the mobile version is not possible? Any particular reasons?
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What might be the reason for this flag to be marked as disputed?
I'm talking about this flag. Clearly, the OP wants an answer that explains that formula intuitively without expanding. The answer just expands the formula which the OP doesn't want. So, it's not an ...
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