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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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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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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Should you flag answers to PSQs, low-quality or off-topic question?
Should you flag answers to Problem Statement Questions, or off-topic questions?
It was brought to my attention after flagging a post, that flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content ...
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Am I, as a comment flagger, a waster of the moderators' time?
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I am a novice SE user, a toddler. In this post I want to criticize some moderator actions, which seems risky and futile, regarding unwritten policies on the meta; however, just for the record,...
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Why this question isn't closed?
Invers laplace tranformation
I want to ask why this question isn't closed even though the user has not shown any work. I flagged this post 10 days before but still no action. Why is it so? I know many ...
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Don't know why but whenever about to flag posts it shows you have flagged this post as low quality
What is happened is that whenever I am opening any new question which is not appropriate for the site it showing that I have already raised a low quality flag post for this question but I haven't. Why ...
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I flagged a comment but I have not heard anything back. What should I do?
I flagged a comment but I have not heard anything back. The comment was very strange and I want to know what is the reason for it. What should I do?
Also it came at the same time as what seemed like ...
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Should I flag an answer if the answer is wrong?
I am referring to this flag I raised-
The answer should have been deleted, apart from being downvoted. For this purpose, couldn't I flag? These types of answers (from high rep. users) lower the ...
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