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So I was sitting in the First Post review queue minding my own business when a post that was obvious spam came up all over the screen.

I decided to flag it as spam, as one would do, but I was then presented with the error message (shown below) "You don't have the permission to use this type of flag".

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Now, after some research it turns out the question was already deleted, possibly while I was busy watching episode 4 of Gotham.

Could we perhaps get a better error message for that? When I moved to downvote the question I was informed that it was already deleted, why could I not have been told that when I tried to flag it?

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    same request on meta.SE though meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233560/…
    – CRABOLO
    Oct 14, 2014 at 10:54
  • 5
    "minding my own business", yeah, sure you were...
    – gunr2171
    Oct 14, 2014 at 12:34
  • @gunr2171 He was at home, all night...
    – James
    Oct 14, 2014 at 23:54
  • I have some catching up to do on Gotham...
    – TMH
    Oct 15, 2014 at 13:46

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