Timeline for Flagging Low Quality Questions
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| May 29, 2022 at 12:43 | history | edited | YCor |
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| May 28, 2022 at 10:04 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 19:14 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @StevenLandsburg Actually, I thought the your were asking about should be closed flags, not VLQ flags. So they actually do not disappear. But since they are handled in the review queue and not by the mods, this does not create additional workload for moderators. I tried to explain some details in the answer. (Although I have to admit I do not know that much about flagging-related stuff, which seems to have various minor nuances.) | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 19:12 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 15:20 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | @MartinSleziak: Ah. I think you've answered my question. I was thinking specifically about questions of very low quality, which I vote to close and then sometimes also flag as "very low quality". If I understand you correctly, those flags are disappearing into the ether, because I've already voted to close. And in that case, of course, there's no point in flagging. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 7:06 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @StefanKohl I think pure nonsense character sequences should not be flagged as spam. Spam flags are also used as an input for improving algorithms to detect spam posts automatically, so it's good to use them only for posts wich actually are spam. As far as deletion of the post and penalty for users go, rude or abusive works the same as spam flag, but data from these flags are not used for detecting spam posts. For more details, see quid's and arjafi's answers here: Should gibberish posts be flagged as abusive or just downvoted and deleted? | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 6:42 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | As a side note, it might be useful to add the tag (flagging) to your question - it could make easier to future users with the same question to find this discussion. Probably als (vote-to-close) might ba a suitable tag. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 6:41 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Could you be more specific about what kind of flag you have in mind? IIRC if a user with 3k+ reputation flags the question for closing then actually no flag is generated and the flag is converted to vote to close. You can test it simply by checking that after such flag you will not see new flag in your flagging history, but you will see a new close vote in the votes tab in your profile. I can try to find a more official source for this if needed, at the moment I have this answer. | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 23:16 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | Assuming that by questions of "extremely low quality" you mean such which cannot be posted in good faith (like advertisements, crank posts, links to malware sites, pure nonsense character sequences), spam flags are the most efficient way to achieve quick deletion. | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 23:14 | answer | added | Todd TrimbleMod | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 22:42 | history | asked | Steven Landsburg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |