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Can we have the NAA flag description changed?

As many of you know we have a lot of issues with the NAA flag in terms of its usage, and on a weekly basis we get an inordinate number of questions regarding it as opposed to questions regarding the ...
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Should “Very Low Quality” flags be offloaded entirely to tag experts?

Some of the Stack Overflow moderators were having (yet another) discussion about what makes "not an answer" fundamentally different from "very low quality", since the former implies the latter in a ...
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With a userbase as diverse as Stack Overflow's, how will we arrive at an actionable definition of “unwelcoming”?

So on Mark Amery's Feedback post about the newest blog post, I wrote this comment: If you're gonna use any user input to define "unwelcoming" y'all are going to be in for a rough time. The ...
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Not An Answer flag declined #24

I flagged an answer to a question that went something like this: my program crashes, saying it can't copy the selected file to the directory where my app is installed It received an answer that ...
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VLQ flag declined, but answer deleted anyway [duplicate]

An answer to this question came up in my review queue. The answer was a one-line wrong code. I do not remember exactly, but it was something like average_color = cv2.mean(image) I had flagged it as ...
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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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Very Low Quality flag disputed

I am aware that there are several threads here regarding low quality posts. I'd like to understand why my flag was disputed on this question: In macOs 10.13.2, /usr/local must be writable It is too ...
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Merge the “Not An Answer” and “Very Low Quality” flags into one

Note, there is a similar request on MSE which is 2 years old. Note also that the observations made here can be put in perspective of the comment flag change which is going to encapsulate lots of ...
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What kind of formatting (or lack thereof) would warrant a VLQ flag?

After reading Shog9's post about flags, I decided to look through the available flags again (mostly out of curiosity, since I've never taken a thorough look at all the flags). In doing so I read the ...
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Did the site policy regarding link-to-tool answers change?

I flagged this answer as VLQ: ...which was declined by a moderator stating: I don't think it's reasonable for a moderator to delete this outright. The comment you left prompting them to expand ...
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Why was my abusive flag on a post containing only gibberish declined?

Today, I flagged this answer (now deleted) as rude/abusive: However, my flag was declined: and I'm curious as to the reasons why, because common consensus agrees with me: What makes something ...
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On the performance of the low quality review queue

If you are able to understand Shog's graph you will notice that NAAs handled by the moderators are twice as much as those handled by "community", which considering that the community is more strict ...
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2016: a year in moderation

This came up in an internal discussion with some Stack Overflow moderators earlier today: even those of you who are pretty familiar with how this site works often have no idea how often various ...
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Under the new triage system, when and how should moderators act on “very low quality” flags on questions?

Earlier today, Shog9 described a new system where "very low quality" flags on questions now don't feed the Low Quality Posts review queue, but instead send things into question triage. Within the Help ...
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Very Low Quality flag declined on an answer that was both very low quality and technically inaccurate

I recently flagged this answer as very low quality and it got declined with this explanation: declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer ...

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