Questions tagged [flagging]
For questions about the flagging process, how flags are handled, etc.
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Flagging conversational comments
In my opinion, comments under this answer can be qualified as conversational and not relevant to the post.
Why? char limit
– Pimgd 2014-10-17 14:45:24Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0
@Pimgd What? What char ...
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Preventing edit wars
There's an edit war going on in Smart Tic Tac Toe, a reinforcement learning approach . Every edit by one high-rep user is being reverted by the OP with no explanation, and he (sigh) offers this:
keep ...
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How do we handle answers that pertain solely to other answers?
Most of us are (or should be) familiar with this section of the Help Center Page How do I write a good answer?:
What goes into an answer
Every answer must make at least one insightful ...
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What to do with a post that feels like a blog entry?
I've been following this question pretty closely, reading comments and everything because the "reasoning part" seemed... blog-ish.
By reading this answer and the comments under it + the way the ...
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Should Code Review be a place for discussing sensitive topics?
I always thought that Code Review is a place where we try to improve code and do not discuss highly questionable philsophical theories. For this reason I'm very disapointed that my flag about this ...
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Flagging users who select "No Action Needed" in First Posts review queue
A while back I was directed to read the accepted community wiki answer to this First Post Review question (and of course heeded the advice).
In Jamal's answer to this question about reviewing a ...
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I broke your code, therefore your code doesn't work: NAA discussion
Let's say the OP had code like this (imagine there's actual code here, I'm just making a generalized example for meta):
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Should vote to close for Code Review comments be flagged?
In The accepted answer by durron597 to A guide to Code Review for Stack Overflow users, it is prescribed:
Please do not vote to close with a custom reason that "it belongs on Code Review".
Some of ...
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Why is a NAA flag being handled by a Moderator?
I recently flagged an answer as "Not An Answer" and the flag was rejected with the reason:
declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention
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Flag declined after edit has been made
Short introduction:
I wanted to flag this question but was alerted that I have 1 declined flag, and should flag with more care. After reviewing what flag was declined, I noticed the similarities.
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Can you have an answer without any code in the question?
I was doing some reviewing earlier when I came across this question, which in my view doesn't have sufficient code to constitute a reviewable question. It essentially consists of a data structure <...
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How should I improve my flags?
I came across a question that was using odd tabbing and I suspected it to be a copy and paste error. I commented on the post to ask if this were the case. This lead to roughly the following comments:
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How can I flag a post for migration to SO?
I recently flagged a question as "in need of moderator attention": https://codereview.stackexchange.com/q/124445/9683.
It provided an algorithm in C, asking how to implement it using low-level AVX ...
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Should I cast a VLQ flag on an answer that has a moderator notice on it?
This question has arisen from a discussion on the following question:
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/98669/best-way-to-work-with-async
The answer posted was flagged as a Very Low ...
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Suspended from chat without warning
As I've been trying out something I have suggested in my own post here, I found myself suspended from the chat already.
Yes, I did flag messages of a specific user a few times, I believe they were ...
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