Unanswered Questions
409 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Send custom flag responses to messages inbox
Long story short: since custom flag responses are messages to users like any other (answer, comment, suggested edit, chat message etc.), users should be notified about them!!
A problem I have with ...
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When reviewing chat flags, please show two lines of context and underline the message timestamp
Not all communities and rooms are created equal. Some have higher standards than others. Thus, what can be considered offensive in one room may be very well acceptable in another. What makes them ...
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When flagging a post or comment, provide a freeform text entry field for all reasons, not just "other"
I'm an elected diamond moderator on one site, and a user of several others. I think it would be extremely helpful for our flagging process if users had the option to enter freeform text explaining ...
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Mark all flags against a post as helpful, when the post author’s account is destroyed
A spammer made several posts on Computer Science. I went straight to destroy the account. The posts had both spam flags and custom flags. After destroying the account, at least the custom flags ...
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Remove the "thanks for flagging" popup after the user has raised a number of flags
Currently, whenever anyone flags a comment, they get this popup:
or, more recently:
I personally find this really annoying, especially since I flag a great many comments a day (on the order of ...
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Give mods a "flag for followup" flag ability
In several cases, it's become apparent that a diamond mod has rushed to take action on a particular question, answer, or comment thread, because they were afraid of "losing track" of it if ...
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In question lists, don't show "modified by SomeAbusiveName" when a post is deleted as rude or spam
When a post is deleted as rude/abusive or spam, people who can see deleted posts don't see the content directly -- they have to click through a notice to see what lies beyond. If the post is a ...
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Self-deletion+undeletion clears NAA/VLQ flags
A user whose post was flagged as not-an-answer can remove all those flags by deleting his post and undeleting it right afterwards. This happens because those flags are (rightfully) cleared when the ...
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Allow us to earn the Marshal badge multiple times
The logic of these two badges, Steward and Marshal, are similar:
Complete at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded multiple times per review type (Steward).
Raise 500 helpful flags (Marshal)...
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Allow sorting flags by handling time instead of flagging time on the flag history/summary page
Sometimes, it happens that my helpful flag counter ends up increasing, but when I check my recent flags, none of them have been dismissed yet. In this case, what has likely happened is that one of my ...
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Is an option missing in the new off-topic reasons?
I really like the new option structure when flagging - I have in particular missed the "Minimal understanding" option.
However, I think that one option is missing. If we look at this ...
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Add ability to get flag status via API
As a companion to my other feature request regarding flag statuses, and a previous feature request for the same thing, I would like to request the ability to get a flag's status via the API.
There ...
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Allow us to review on the spot
This post was inspired by a post on MSO from a moderator.
Current we have to go to the review queue to handle a pending flag on a post (like NAA/VLQ). Sometimes you come along an active post which ...
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Better tools to handle spam on low-traffic sites
On many Stack Exchange sites, particularly during the hours when Europe and America are asleep, spam can survive for hours. This gives a bad impression.
What can we do to allow the community to ...
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Add more grouping/sorting links to the moderator flag queue for "close" and "other" flags
In late 2011 some changes were made to the moderator queue that help us process flags more quickly. The main change was that a list of links for grouping flags by type was added to the sidebar.
This ...
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