Unanswered Questions
409 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Update the close flagging experience to better align with close voting
Note: This post is the result of a TL discussion on how to address a minor bug in the flag dialog for users who can't vote to close, which led to a discussion about what the desired behavior should be....
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Bulk resolving flags fails silently
Not sure if this is Staging Ground only. Posting it here to be safe.
I ran across a post in Staging Ground that was pure junk (now deleted). The user self-deleted the post, and the user was later ...
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Moderator tools need the ability to search
Some key moderator lists lack any ability to search text. This includes
Open moderator flags
Moderator messages
Community Team escalations
User annotations
Somewhat related is that the Users page (/...
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Are there any published stats on the percentage of questions that get flagged?
I wonder whether there are any published stats on the percentage of questions that get flagged on a given SE.
E.g. for Meta.SE in 2024, I can divide the number of questions flagged reported in 2024: a ...
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Show currently raised flags in the flag window even if that flag type isn't available anymore
Feature request: Show currently raised flags in the flag window even if that flag type isn't available anymore.
Current behavior: currently raised flags aren't shown in the flag window if that flag ...
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Is there a reason why number of allowed spam flags shouldn't carry over between sites?
Recently, Super User got hit by a big spam wave, so much that people started to run out of flags as described here. (The spam's still going - flagged one just now.) Since spam is a really-easy-to-tell-...
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Color the failed flagging box as an error, not as informational
Currently, this failed flagging box is colored as informational (blue), not error (yellow), e.g.:
FR: Color the failed flagging box as an error, not as informational.
By contrast, informational ...
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Super User is having another big spam wave and metasmoke is down; staff assistance is required
Today another spam wave hit Super User. The homepage isn't looking that pretty:
I ran out of flags quite some time ago, and even users with 100 seem close to doing so. Also, metasmoke is also down, ...
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Auto-downvotes that were caused by helpful VLQ flags on answers aren't undone when the post is later upvoted
For some reason, edits on posts will automatically dismiss any pending very low quality flags as helpful, and also, the system will auto-downvote answers (but not questions) when a pending VLQ flag is ...
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Flag dialog is greyed out along with the rest of a recently deleted question
I found a spam post, clicked on the post to report it as spam as one does. As the whole user appeared to exist solely to promote spam, I intended to flag for moderator attention, given that there is ...
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Don't bother users who are suspended on chat with chat flags
Users who are suspended on chat, and hence unable to handle flags (when attempting to handle them, users get a "Suspended users cannot vote" message), are still notified about chat flags.
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Spam influx: Time to reduce or remove spam flag rate-limiting for community members in good standing?
In recent days, Super User has been hit by a large amount of spam. The spam flag rate-limiting timer is hindering our ability to deal with the spam in a timely manner. Given the current context, ...
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Why are my only options "edit" and "decline" (when "edit" doesn't work) for a flag on a deleted comment?
It looks like a comment being deleted no longer clears any comment flags (at least for duplicate auto comments), but there are only two options remaining (edit/decline), one of which doesn't even work:...
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Allow moderators to change the outcome of a handled flag
Per staff request, I'm posting this as a standalone feature request:
Please allow moderators to change the outcome of a handled flag, such as when they accidentally/prematurely decline a flag they ...
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Allow us to flag reviews
Please allow us to flag reviews in the review queues. Possible use cases/Flag options for this could include:
Incorrect reviews/Suspected robo-reviewing
User persistently spamming queues with ...