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Why was this "future works policy" close flag declined as an improper use for flagging?
Note, I do not have close-vote privileges, so instead I have to use flags. The flag menu has an explicit "this question should be closed" submenu.
I flagged this question for closure with the custom ...
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Why were the "Not an Answer" flags on this post about wandless magic in Harry Potter declined?
Are there any spells that a wizard/witch can cast without a wand in the Harry Potter universe?
This question was "answered" by a post going off on a tangent about soldiers being able to ...
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"Your last flag was declined - please review it before flagging this post!" But how?
One of my flags declined (which I understand after reading this). But now, when I try to flag something else, it says
Your last flag was declined - please review it before flagging this post!
and ...
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If someone uses all of their flags, are they not allowed to flag anymore?
I just flagged something as opinion based and used one of my flags. This is my first time using flags, so I'm wondering if I use all ten (not that I plan to go on a flagging rampage) will I be put on ...
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Why was this 'not an answer' flag on a rant about US declined?
This (now deleted) "answer" came up in the first posts review. It attempts to answer the question why the Jedi would serve a corrupt republic by trying to draw parallels to the current situation in ...
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Can someone tell why this flag was declined?
This answer is just worthless. Why was the flag declined?
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How to "unflag" a question?
Questions get flagged as duplicates etc, and it takes a certain amount of people to vote that question as such. But, there is no direct vote to counter the flag before it gets deleted or closed. You ...
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Why were these comment flags declined, while the comments were deleted?
I flagged a number of comments on Wad Cheber's answer to the question what technologies were predicted by Back to the Future II.
There was a discussion about the source of some statements that had ...
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Confusion about declined flags
I've seen this happen a number of times, and have always been confused about it.
Last week someone posted a new answer on Did Dumbledore know the last part of Snape's Unbreakable Vow?
So at ...
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Why was my 'not-an-answer' flag disputed, when a mod actually deleted the answer?
Yesterday I flagged this (now deleted) answer as 'not-an-answer' and I had my flag disputed.
But, today I saw that the answer was
deleted by Darth Satan, Pureferret♦ 11 hours ago
So my question is: ...
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Why was this 'not an answer' flag disputed?
I flagged this answer as 'not an answer':
No it's not Harry Potter but is supposed to look like him. What he summoned isn't explained or likely to explained.
It is comprised of a reply to a ...
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Which flag reason should I use when flagging comments?
When I'm flagging a comment, which flag reason should I use?
user1027
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Is there a way to reject/recall your own flags?
I just flagged an answer that, IMO, was not actually an answer since it only gave a short and obvious "out-of-universe" explanation for a question. I flagged it as "should be a comment", only to ...
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What is the number in the "Low Answer Score" in the review section?
Looking at the current flags on an answer, I see the following line:
Low answer quality score [66], /questions/how-to-answer shown and skipped
I have seen other numbers in the otherwise same text ...
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How are number of flags available calculated?
When I first started flagging, I had something to the tune of 10 flags available.
Over time, I've seen this number increase. I currently have 39 total available (I've already got a couple open at the ...
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When and why did the flag reason change?
I was going to flag a question and noticed that the flagging reasons have changed radically since yesterday.
Was this discussed at some point because I can't find anything in meta about it.
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When does the system show flag review screen? [closed]
Today I had an yellow ellipse with "11" in it in my top toolbar next to "review" link, which took me to a screen allowing reviewing flagged posts.
I only recall seeing that screen ...
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Why can I only delete some answers in flag review screen? [closed]
Today I was presented with flag review screen which showed some flags for review.
For some of the posts, I had 2 buttons: "flag" and "delete answer"
But for others, I only had the "flag" button, ...
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What to do with flags which are valid but not for earth-shatteringly bad content? [closed]
Today I was shown a bunch of flagged posts to review (yellow circle near "review" link).
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/flagged
Some of them were valid, some seemed like errorneous flags (I ...
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Why did my flags get declined?
I was looking over my flags and I noticed two of these flags were declined:
If you find the post, the answers have since been deleted. Is this why they were declined? Or is it something else?
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How does getting credit for flagging work?
Since I've been on the site and learned what is an appropriate form of question and what's not I've done my part to flag questions not appropriate for the site. And most of the questions I flag are ...
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What happened to my flag history? Was my flag declined? [closed]
Two days ago I flagged a post. I'm relatively new to the site (54 days) and I'm still getting used to things and I'm afraid I might have improperly flagged the post for moderator review. Maybe I ...
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Why flag weight of 749 [closed]
I was browsing through the badges page and I noticed that to get a Marshall badge, you need to have
Achieved a flag weight of 749 by reviewing and flagging appropriately
Is there a specific ...
