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How to appropriately flag questions for migration?
That was me. It's been so long since I didn't have the privilege to do things, that I sometimes forget that others can't do things. I was expecting people to vote to close (VTC). I keep feeling like I ...
schroederMod
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Not-constructive flag declined, on highly up-voted moderator comment
Because, sometimes, highly voted comments, even though they are not constructive are kept because the community wants it.
schroederMod
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How did I manage to flag this question twice?
It isn't showing that you flagged as a duplicate. It's showing that you flagged for recommended closure, and this disables both flagging as “should be closed” and flagging as a duplicate. “Duplicate” ...
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Is there a way to cleanly delete links from spam?
The clean way to delete links from spam is to ensure that the spam post gets deleted as soon as possible. To do this, flag as spam. Six spam flags (or a single one from a moderator) delete the post, ...
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Not-constructive flag declined, on highly up-voted moderator comment
The content in question is not there because it belongs to a mod. It is there because it is highly upvoted.
I think I am the single greatest remover of comments on Sec.SE (almost 5000 comments ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Flag wasn't helpful
It's not spam, for one. The question appears to be (from the title) if the file that was created by the process is secure.
Secondly, even if it was spam mods should only be informed if something ...
schroederMod
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Banned from flagging with only 8 declined out of 227
These sorts of things are automated so I can't give you any useful info beyond the guidance to wait.
Of those though, I'd have to say neither flag should have been raised. Yes, they seem like low ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Should the way comment posted as answer are handled be improved?
Some of my personal thoughts:
Converting
As far as I know, converting answers to comments and vice versa is allowed to 10k rep. users.
Ok, this is false - thanks @grawity.
Personally, I think that ...
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