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Is the "spam" flag appropriate for gibberish posts, or is it reserved for promotional material?
The spam flag is indeed intended only for promotional posts that have very little to do with the topic at hand.
However, utterly meaningless gibberish may well be flagged as rude or abusive. The flag ...
ACuriousMindMod
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Flagging low quality answers: an experiment
I heartily support Emilio's proposal, but to explain why I support it will require a bit of rambling. So please bear with me and I'll try not to make this too painful.
The Physics Stack Exchange has ...
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A way to mark questions as non-duplicates?
There are a few ways:
If you have >3k rep, you can directly vote to reopen. This will put the question in the reopen review queue.
Once in the reopen review queue, users with >3k rep can vote to ...
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Raising issues with the chat room
OK, there are a couple different things going on here.
Potentially inflammatory posts
It's certainly true that chat bystanders can often tell when a conversation is about to turn nasty. And you're ...
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Why was this flag rejected?
Oh, hi, that was me. Basically DavidZ has described my reasoning, but I can elaborate a little more specifically about what I had in mind in this case.
I'm not a super-big fan of the "convert to ...
robMod
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Should we flag comments like "Thank you"?
Comments are not really intended for chit-chat. So, if you wish, you may flag comments that don't add any clarification are are purely social using the reason:
It's no longer needed.
This comment is ...
BuzzMod
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Spam flag on nonsense garbage declined
Note that "spam" is notably missing from the list of flags (VLQ, rude or abusive, not an answer) Shog9 lists in the answer you quote. The spam flag description reads:
Exists only to promote a ...
ACuriousMindMod
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Should we flag comments like "Thank you"?
Technically, yes.
According to our policy:
Comments are not recommended for any of the following:
[...]
Compliments which do not add new information ("+1, great answer!"); instead, upvote ...
SuperCiociaMod
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Why was this Very Low Quality flag declined?
I agree, the very low quality flag is currently somewhere between useless and horribly confusing. Not only I agree, several posts on meta.SE also agree:
Remove VLQ as a flag option, top answer says ...
ACuriousMindMod
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Should contributions to the community be made compulsory?
Should contributions to the community be made compulsory?
Absolutely not. No way. Hell no.
Contributing to this site is done on a volunteer basis. If people want to contribute by writing answers, ...
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Keeping track of “abuse” (or other) flags?
There is no automatic consequence for repeated flags for rudeness or abuse. However, there are automatic flags raised when particular users accrue a number of these flags in a certain timeframe, ...
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A new flag: "not-constructive"
If it's vague, flag/vote to close as Unclear What You're Asking.
If you think it should be closed but none of the canned reasons fit, then flag/vote to close with a custom reason. If five 3k+ users ...
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Should we leave super wrong highly downvoted posts visible or should we delete them?
I used to be of the opinion that we should keep such low quality answers since it's at least an attempt to answer the question, as misguided as the answer may be.
But after talking with other members ...
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How can I accomplish the removal of comments by another participant, on an answer I had posted, that might be considered derogatory?
You can't delete other people's comments directly, in review or otherwise. If you think a comment is rude or abusive, or just no longer needed, you can flag it for moderator attention by clicking the ...
ChrisMod
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Raising issues with the chat room
David Z has it right. As a moderator who spends a lot of time moderating chat myself, I'll clear up a few misconceptions:
Flagging
That flag button on the right-hand end of a message? That one is ...
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Query regarding flagging posts
Marking a question off topic and migrating it to another site are really two separate actions, although the system is not very good at making that clear. (Some people have been complaining about it ...
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Flags mentioned as helpful, but still my remaining flags are reduced
From the Help Center,
How many flags do I have?
When you start out, you are allotted 10 flags per day. This number may increase to up to 100 flags per day:
You get one bonus flag per 2000 reputation....
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Why is question-migration limited?
There are two main concerns here:
Migrating questions to beta sites is strongly discouraged. This is mostly because beta sites are still in testing and there is no guarantee that they will succeed. ...
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Is it possible to expand the list of migration sites for off-topic posts?
It's certainly possible, in general, to add extra migration paths. But we only do so when there are really a lot of questions being migrated along that path, enough that it starts to tax the mods' ...
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The problem with spam flags
That is not spam.
On StackExchange, only posts that explicity advertise a specific website, program or product are considered spam. Gibberish should be flagged as either "not an answer" or "rude or ...
ACuriousMindMod
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Flagging Rejections and Penalty Time
Flagging bans are described in this post on Meta Stack Exchange.
If at least 25% of your flags from the past 7 days were declined, you're blocked from flagging anything. Depending on when and how ...
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What kind of flags should be raised in the following cases?
The question asked shows no research effort. It could have been easily solved with minimum research from the side of the user who is asking. But it does not belong to homework-and-exercises tag.
...
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Query regarding review of post flags
Non-moderator users have no way to know that their posts have been flagged except by the phenomena associated with the review of such flags, e.g. automatic comments with a "From Review" link at the ...
ACuriousMindMod
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Is a good 'accepted flag ratio' defined?
So, story time.
Once upon a time, it used to be that Stack Exchange had this thing called "flag weight", which was basically pretty much the very metric you're interested in, and which was shown to ...
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How can I flag a harmful anonymous suggested edit?
Raise a custom moderator flag on the edited post, and we'll look at it. It's possible for the diamond moderators to remove a user's editing privileges, but we almost never need to do that.
For ...
robMod
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Which flag do I use for an inappropriate post?
Question and answer flags
Spam
The "spam" flag is for content which is both promotional and irrelevant to the post, such as
links to commercial websites unrelated to physics
Do not use this flag ...
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Flags mentioned as helpful, but still my remaining flags are reduced
You get 10 flags a day when you start out. Once used up, you have to wait until the next day to flag more posts. This is done to prevent new users from flagging everything they see and abusing the ...
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Flagging question as belonging to another SE site
Migration options are rarely added unless a site has a track record of a lot of migrations to the other site, the majority of which are successful. This is to prevent uninformed migrations to sites ...
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Flag Post Warning
The criteria for that message are set to try to catch well meaning but overzealous flaggers early. Your flagging history is very helpful overall and you should look at the declined flag as a chance to ...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible