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Disputed vs. accepted/declined flags

What does it mean when a flag is disputed? How is that different from being declined? I don't see a clear explanation for this in my flagging history, so just asking it here. Ironically, the first ...
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Why did my available amount of flags per day increase? [duplicate]

I started to use my flag privilege and initially had only 10 flags per day. But after couple of days my available amount of flags increased by 1. And now I see: 11 flags remaining What is the ...
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How dangerous to have disputed flags? [duplicate]

Recently i received several of my flags back as disputed. Wanted to ask if it is dangerous to have disputed flags and if it's so, how many such flags might lead to a temporary ban of my privilege to ...
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Could high-rep users help with clearing comment flags?

I have to start this question with a simple assumption: there are a lot of comment flags raised by users: We get a lot of comment flags. A lot. We see a lot of comments. We delete comments all the ...
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Flagging an Answer if all (or most) comments should be deleted

From this help page: If you see a post where many comments should be deleted, especially if there's an ongoing discussion, there’s no need to flag each comment. Flag the post for moderator ...
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Should you flag a comment on a post you just flagged?

I just flagged a question as too broad. It had a comment that I thought could be flagged as well. Flagging a comment means someone is going to check that comment at one point. Assuming the flag is ...
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Other flag raised from Triage suggesting options not available rejected

In the Triage review queue, I came to one question which seemed to be of very low quality. As the Very Low Quality flag was not available, I raised an Other flag. It was subsequently declined with: ...
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How do we handle ethical/legal questions? [duplicate]

Today I came across a (now deleted- will link it here if I can find the link) question which asked about the legality of using distributing Microsoft libraries (DLLs) with their programs. This type ...
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Upvoted Offensive Post

I just flagged this post as offensive, and I noticed that, before I flagged it, there were two upvotes on it. Since it was a late answer on an old post, I feel it's unlikely that the answer was ...
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How to deal with questions of the type “I don't understand how this code works”?

Quite often, especially with the tag 'java', I have come across questions that contain a code snippet followed by "How does this code work?" or "What is this code doing?" or sometimes even an implicit ...
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Flag Dialog shows that I have already raised some flags but not others, but I am disallowed from raising any types of flags

Before I start, this is not a duplicate of questions like this, as those are referring to it appearing that they flagged twice but they only did it once. My issue is that while the flag dialog ...
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Can I retract a flag posted for a question or answer? [duplicate]

If I flag an answer as "very low quality", and then after some time the answer is edited and no longer qualifies as "very low quality", is there anything I can do to retract the flag?
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Should we use other-flags to ask for migration?

As the title says, should we use other-flags to ask moderators to migrate clear-cut cases? Or should we refrain, at least as long as noone has answered yet? (Would that imply we should baby-sit a ...
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Flags are being declined, I can't figure it out why?

Recently I flagged two answers in Stack Overflow. Both got rejected, I read the explanation given by moderator, but I still not figure it out what's the issue with those flags. Flag 1 I flagged this ...
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Flagging migration should include more options

I have encountered numerous questions in with the sprite-kit tag such as: Should I use sprite kit for a simple game like flappy bird or games that simpler? These questions do not belong on SO, but ...
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Spam Flag was Raised, Disputed, Question On Hold and Removed, All Within 1 Minute

This seems like a very odd set of circumstances to me. I flagged this question as spam shortly after it was posted. For those who can't see deleted questions, it was a link to a website asking people ...
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Declined flag for low-quality question

I recently had a flag declined for flagging a low-quality question and now I'm getting warnings when I try to flag other questions. This question looks blatantly terrible to me but the comment says: ...
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Why is my flag accepted and the question still alive?

My flag has been accepted, so why is not this question closed? Q: Developing a mobile app to store images Flag: UPDATE It was just closed as off-topic, so why am not I in the voters list?
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Speed close flags

Is there a policy on flagging questions for speed closing? Example use case: duplicates that haven't been closed for years. I've submitted such flags, and some were accepted, while others were ...
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Dealing with posts with an outdated accepted answer [duplicate]

I have come across some posts (related to Jdbc) in this forum that have answers that are outdated due to the future driver versions either changing the way things worked or phasing out(depricated) ...
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Multiple flags wrong reason selected [duplicate]

I flagged a question as both off-topic and low-quality but upon click the flag once more the follow was displayed. The image shows that the question was flagged as a duplicate. Just to be sure I ...
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Flagged as Blatantly Off Topic, On Hold as Opinion Based

I'm scratching my head about this one. I flagged this question as Blatantly Off Topic, but it has been put on hold as primarily opinion-based. It confuses me how those who voted for the close reason ...
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How do I flag a flag? [duplicate]

I had flagged a comment as obsolete, but I was wrong! Then I thought It does not matter... it will be declined., but it was not! So how can I bring this error to the attention of the moderators?
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LQP queue unusually full: is VLQ/NAA being misused?

This is up from about a week ago where it was around 20 posts. The issue is: much of the stuff in the queue should not be in there. (Questions that should be closed as 'unclear' or 'minimal ...
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How to finish this edit war? [duplicate]

How can I extract list from list in prolog? First, I thought I should flag it, but then I get the message that my last flag was declined. Also, there is no item fit for closing.
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Get a link to share a flag?

I need to flag a post that I previously flagged before. My previous flag was marked as Helpful, but the behavior I brought up continues. I'd like to provide a link to the original in my new flag so ...
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When to flag an answer as “it is not an answer”?

With respect to some flag rejection messages I had recently, below seems to be few of the guidelines for judging an answer If it's an incorrect answer, down-vote it. If you don't agree with it, ...
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Answer flagged as “not an answer”, regarded helpful, then minor-edited shortly afterwards [duplicate]

To a question asking for a html file with all HTML5 elements present (admittedly, skirting round the edges of external-recommendation-closability but highly regarded (+10)) I flagged the following ...
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Should there be less “require moderator” flags?

Recently I was prohibited from flagging since too many flags were declined. When I reviewed my flags I found this: Refering to this question: How to make text inside title tag animate using ...
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Should I raise a flag to request a completed burninate request be tagged [status-completed]?

I noticed a good amount of burninate-request here on meta which have been completed, but have not been marked status-completed. I went to 7 of these posts today, and after verifying that their tags ...
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What happens if I flag a post that is already in the Low Quality review queue?

Lately, I have started to flag bad content more, particularly answers, and was wondering about a particular scenario: What happens if I flag an answer that is already in the Low Quality review queue? ...
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Do extra NAA flags after 1 NAA flag get ignored? [duplicate]

From what I understand, it takes 1 NAA flag to have that post go into the Low Quality Queue and/or Mod Queue. From there, it needs to get 6 recommended deletes for it to be deleted or 1 delete vote ...
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When can you flag again after recent flags have been declined?

If one has had a recent streak of flags being declined, when does one get the permission back?
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Question asking for you to write code

How should I flag a question that is just asking you to write code? I mean a question in what the OP didn't write any code yet and just drops the problem in the hope that people will just answer the ...
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Declined flag on link-only answer

I know we have very similar topics on a regular basis. I thought the definition of a "link-only answer" had been fairly well established, mainly based on @Shog9's canonical Your answer is in another ...
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How to handle questions with seemingly malicious (albeit legal) intent

I came across this question yesterday from a brand new user: I recently got pop-up from these websites, pop were screen blocker with infinite repeats: onlinecompleteproducts.in online-helps.com. ...
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Are old, upvoted answers harder to get removed?

Earlier I flagged this answer as NAA, which seemed pretty straightforward to me. I read it as being some commentary relating to the question (but which doesn't answer it), followed by a separate ...
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Is there a preferred method of notifying moderators of posts when nothing is wrong?

Recently, I asked this question on meta asking for a moderator to add some "version specific" tag synonyms. The community seems to agree with my evaluation, based on upvotes; however, it doesn't seem ...
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What queue do posts flagged 'Not An Answer' go?

I assume that when a post is flagged Very Low Quality, it goes in the Low Quality Posts queue. But, where do posts flagged as Not an Answer go? Do they even end up in a queue, or are they only ...
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moderator queue stats

Would it be possible to get some stats on the moderator queue (I think that's what it's called - the place where our flags can go). The timeframe doesn't matter much, whether the stats are from like ...
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Disputed flag after user edit

I've flagged today the following answer as not an answer: Please can you help me ? Why this is not working ? USER CODE HERE I am not getting any replay from the Google.. What am i doing wrong ? ...
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Can I flag posts from SEDE or a search in bulk if they're low quality?

I recently had a couple NAA flags declined on some link-only answers (they really were, but I don't really want to make this about a few cases unless really necessary) with: declined - Please ...
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How to flag an edit?

There does not seem to be any obvious way how to flag an edit. In this revision history there have been several incidents: I retagged at #2, user undid this at #3, I rolled back with a comment to ...
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Dispute a declined flag

Is there some mechanism in Stackoverflow that allows me to refute a declined flag? This question was put on hold as too broad here However, I had originally flagged it as VLQ, so I feel that it ...
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How to handle flags in response to this user's question history?

I flagged this question yesterday for being unclear (could have qualified for others too) and went on my merry way. Today, in the edit queue, I came across this question. I posted a comment about the ...
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Should I flag old questions that ought to be closed?

I often use the new answers to old questions page. Mostly I like to seek bad answers that should be voted for deletion. Occasionally the answer itself is a sign that the question is bad and should ...
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How to deal with post containing only code

How should I deal with stuff that contains only code (both question, "here code, fix it" and answer that has just a bunch of lines and not comment at all)? Is: for answer: flagging it as "This is ...
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Should one flag questions already on hold?

Is it ever beneficial to flag questions that are already on hold? So yesterday I saw a post that was blatant spam with the contents of the question something along the lines of... "Get hot girls ...
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How are flag limits calculated?

How are the daily flag limits calculated for each user? I joined the site ~30 days ago and I think I had around 10 flags/day allowed. Today, I just flagged a question and noticed that I had some 20 ...
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Why were my 'not an answer' flags declined?

I flagged an answer on this question as 'not an answer', because it should actually be a comment (it asks a question, and doesn't answer the question): However: The flag was declined as flags ...
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