Questions tagged [declined-flags]
Use for questions about why a specific post or comment flag was declined. It is best to include a link to the post whose flag was declined, as well as the reason for flagging the post/comment.
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Why did a moderator decline all my flags under this question? [duplicate]
A moderator declined all of my flags under this question. That page is in dire need of cleanup and de-cluttering.
Here are some of the flags I made:
I flagged this comment because it's an answer-in-...
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Should I not flag users with very questionable SG reviews?
Properly reviewing posts in the Staging Ground takes time but sometimes there are users that just approve any question they come across or are closing lots of questions as "Not about programming&...
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This NAA flag was declined, why? [duplicate]
I've flagged this answer to How do I cast int to enum in C#? because (as its title suggests) the question is about casting an int to enum and the answer (as it states at its very beginning : "...
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Why were 2/4 of my mod flags declined despite all 4 answers being deleted?
A few hours ago, following guidance from Flag Duplicate Answers on the same Question, I raised moderator flags on 4 answers to How to remove time portion of date in C# in DateTime object only?.
As you ...
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Declined "In need of moderator intervention" Flags - "link-only answer", "non-English content" [duplicate]
I often help when I find answers that I believe are incorrect or not entirely appropriate. I flag posts to the best of my ability. Recently, two of my flags were declined, but the answers I flagged ...
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"Nobody in their right mind would do that" -- unfriendly or unkind or neither?
In this question the asker presents their C++ code which uses a custom linked list data structure (as provided by LeetCode), aiming to sort it.
One commenter writes (I highlight in bold):
Don't just ...
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Show rejections in the achievements-dialog as the current implementation is highly inefficient
Currently, when a user raises flags or submits suggest-edits, they will not be notified in the achievements-dialog should any of them be rejected.
TLDR: Instead when raising a new flag/making a new ...
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Should I rewrite "rhetorical answers" if it still does not solve OP's question?
My 'Not an answer' flag was declined on this answer:
Can you check if your variable isHidden,inside renderCell, is getting recalculated on toggle?
My visible button is not working, how do I solve it?...
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Why were "no longer needed" flags declined?
Comments to this answer are confusing because the answerer actually already addressed the issues with edits. They are, thus, no longer needed and should be removed. I flagged accordingly but it was ...
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Reason for declined "Very Low quality" flags [duplicate]
I recently flagged several questions as VLQ.
Some of them were found "Helpful" while others were declined with following message (with my emphasis):
Declined - Questions should never be ...
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Why is this comment not unfriendly/unkind?
Two days ago I reported this comment as unfriendly/unkind:
Whoever downvoted my question, you really are a weird person. Downvoting with a comment as WHY downvoted makes sense so that I can at least ...
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Why is the "Very Low Quality" flag available for questions? [duplicate]
I recently got some Flags on Questions declined that I have personaly evaluated as very poor.
The Flags got rejected with the following Justification:
"Declined - Questions should NEVER be ...
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Saying "thank you" is not NAA anymore?
I raised an NAA flag on this answer Answer to: Blank space appearing at bottom of all webpages in Google Chrome on iOS [closed] which got declined. As I explained in my comment underneath the post, ...
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What factors were considered for declining AI flag on Meta?
I flagged two of the Meta answers as having AI-generated content. Both were declined. Could I have some transparency on why the flags were declined?
Flags were raised by me on these two answers:
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Declined flag - rude language should have been edited out [duplicate]
I recently flagged a post as "rude /abusive" that multiple persons within the comments found to be insulting. The OP used inappropriate swearing words and sentences referring to parents (...
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