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What is the appropriate action when a post consists of nonsense? [duplicate]

What is an appropriate action in this case? (It is resolved now, but I would like to know for the future.) The post was just mashed keyboard: Ghhehehehhrhejejdndhggyyh My initial instinct was to ...
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How should Discussions' replies with "gibberish" be flagged? [duplicate]

The most recent discussion posted in Discussions now was not written in English. So far, it got three replies, all having only "gibberish". OK, strictly, they are not gibberish according to ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election - Questionnaire [closed]

In connection with the ongoing moderator election, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. The top questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall ...
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Declined spam flag on gibberish question

To those voting to close this as a duplicate of one of the questions linked here: Declining this flag represents a change in how flags are being handled by moderators. If there really is a change in ...
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Why was my flag as spam declined on this? [duplicate]

I flagged this question as spam and was declined; why? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61484831/what-do-you-think-i-am Help me to understand here. It's deleted. This is for <10k members. ...
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1 answer
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Why was my flag to a rude/abusive answer declined?

I flagged this answer as rude or abusive because: The username was garbage (jooooooooooooooooooooooo) The answer consisted of: codejooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo which makes ...
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Is this lorem ipsum post an issue? [duplicate]

I recently came across a post from a 1 rep user that contained only "lorem ipsum..." in its body. (Screenshot.) I flagged it but the OP deleted it very quickly, even apologised, and I don't know if ...
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Is there an issue with the spam reporting workflow on deleted questions?

I recently reported this answer (10K only) for being an obvious spammer. I seem to recall I saw this in SO CVR, but by the time I got to it, the question was deleted by its author. The spam answer was:...
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What action should be taken on an answer making opinionated statements about the subject of the question and linking to a blog for more?

I am right now looking at the answer below: I marked it as Not An Answer. The question was about some trouble implementing captcha. I have zero knowledge about this thing. The answer instead of ...
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Flag declined, then accepted *for same reason* [duplicate]

There's a flurry of questions about declined flags and what happens when flagged posts are deleted anyway. Here, I have a specific case: A post with profanity was flagged as rude or abusive. A ...
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Let's get aligned on how spam flags can be used

Recently, I've noticed some contention — and simple miscommunication — over when 'red' flags ('spam' and 'rude or abusive') should be cast on Stack Overflow, and how moderators should handle them. ...
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What should I do about abuse discovered in a post's revision history?

Today I encountered a post whose revision history shows that a string of characters, "YT", was repeated to circumvent the "too much code" warning. In these cases, I understand this as abuse, as ...
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Why is this spam flag "disputed"?

TL:DR, I flagged this answer as spam, and now I see, the answer is deleted but the flag is "disputed". FWIW, the user account seems to be gone , too. I checked the timeline also, did not get much ...
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6 answers
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A post looks like gibberish. If I can read the content nonetheless, should I flag it for its content or its gibberish style?

I just stumbled upon this answer: (screenshot for <10K) My first thought was, that the poster had difficulties with the English languages, but his comments suggest that he does it on purpose. How ...
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Show a notification that an answer/edit is being made

Sometimes when a new question pops up and is relatively "easy" to answer it I go straight ahead to typing. What happens when I publish my answer though is that I realise there are already 5 answers ...
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