Just now I flagged a comment on  that said nothing other than ~&quot;thank you, that's helpful&quot; and it was deleted immediately.  I did not know this was a feature.  Moreover, I didn't find any documentation on this feature here at meta.SE. Question: I flagged a &quot;thank you&quot; comment as it's &quot;no longer needed&quot; and it was auto-deleted: was there a change I'm unaware of? I'd be particularly interested in understanding precisely how this feature works. This comment was not offensive nor was it spam, just a run-of-the-mill &quot;thank you&quot; comment.  I don't recall this happening for previous &quot;it's no longer needed&quot; flags.  I'm sure it was a single flag that caused this, because it's a 5-month old post. If I knew precisely what was going on, I'd pay a bit more attention to flagging these.
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Across the Stack Exchange network you may leave comments on a question or answer.  How do comments work? What are comments for, and when shouldn't I comment? Who can post comments? Who can edit comments? How can I format and link in comments? My comment doesn't contain some of the text I typed in it; why? My comment appears to be long enough, but I can't post it because it's too short; why? Who can delete comments? When should comments be deleted? Why can't I comment on specific posts even if I have enough reputation to comment? When can comments be undeleted? What are automatic comments? How can I link to comments? Anything else I should know about comments?  Also see the FAQ articles on  and .
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All my flags that were raised before April 2011 are marked as "active", except spam/offensive flags which are marked helpful:        Checking some, they were obviously helpful (e.g. post deleted as result) so most likely the "helpful" bit was not recorded yet back then.  I don't think it should stay "pending" forever, better just remove it and put "status not recorded" or something like that.  Worth also to mention, this is causing a mis-calculation in the new flag history, as reported here:
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I checked my  to see whether I can find something similar to the main-site flag-history for chat-flags, but didn't find anything. I recently had the (dis)pleasure of regularly having to deal with a user, that has been deleted multiple times. Whenever they show up (with the same nick-name) again I have to flag them again. I'd like to get an overview of how often I had to do that, and whether my flags were helpful for the moderators. As such I propose the implementation of a flag-history as it is already in place for the main-site for chat-flags, that request moderator intervention. To be completely clear I am not talking about the 10k user flags, which are acted on in a matter of sometimes seconds with instantly visible results, but about moderator attention flags from this menu:
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Looks like flagging has been affected by releases today. Are these intended effects?   Higher daily limits (appear doubled for me, flagging of posts limit also doubled).  Explained by Shog9 below. Soft comment deletion  - e.g. for "accept rate" obsolete comments - it does in fact work, but the immediate feedback is gone.  This is fixed now. Has the throttling rate changed?  Seems possible to repeated flag without waiting 5 seconds.  If it was broken, it isn't anymore. Old soft deletions that were neither categorised as "helpful" or "declined" have all become "helpful".   If limits have been updated, can we get the new formula published? Not changed, as confirmed by Shog9.
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I'm not quite sure what to search for on this, but I noticed a little number on one (and only one, so I couldn't pinpoint a trend) of my flags in my flag history.   The text appears as follows:     title of question [closed] (1)   the flag was marked as helpful, the question was subsequently closed, yet a little (1) remains. I tried to see what that question had that the other questions did not, but moderator shut-down, specific tags, number of votes didn't matter. My only guess would be number of answers to the question? But I have no evidence for that. Does anyone know for certain?
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In my notification bar at the top of the page, there's a pretty rude comment about my question, but when I try to look at it, it's already been deleted. I'd really like to be able to respond to that comment (in a polite, professional manner, of course.) Is there any way I can see comments that have been deleted?
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In the flag summary page, we see now all kinds of flags we submitted including comment flags that until recently were not visible in the summary except for raw number on the side. That's all good.  However, each item still show only either "asked" or "answered" with the question/answer author. For comment flag it can be rather confusing as it appears we flagged the post which is not  true. Example:        I flagged a comment posted , not the question itself.  I suggest something like this instead:        Where "foo" is the comment author.
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I'm fairly responsive to comments left on my answers. This often means updating an answer to incorporate new information or questions that have been added in the comments (or edits to the original question).  It would be useful to flag comments as 'addressed by edit', so that they can be deleted by the commentator, or highlighted for pruning by mods - I don't think this is in scope for the usual 'flag comment'.  More contentiously, it might make sense if comments flagged with 'addressed by edit' were automatically suppressed after a suitable period of time has passed - long enough to rule out silliness with duplicate comments being used to steal comment upvotes.  EDIT I'm not convinced that "This would mean that in the long run, you could delete any comments on your posts without involving others" would be a problem. It is a valid point, so the safeguard would be to have a veto, so that when a poster says 'addressed by edit' the commentator can say 'no it isn't'.  I can see there is still an argument that comments add to a SO users (offline) rep, however I believe mods clean-up posts anyway to remove comment noise, so I don't think anything is really lost.  Moving on to the concerns complicating the UI, I happily concede that a flag next to comments would be the wrong place. Presenting a list of comments plus checkbox at edit time would work, and should improve quality (as comments become prompts when editing).
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Note how the info to the right of the flag says I've commented    If it knows I've commented, it really shouldn't tell me to comment.  I'm in the habit of commenting immediately after I close, so I can see this happening a lot.  Even for mods who normally comment before closing, the rare occurrence of this flag when they forget or whatever should be dismissed on a comment just like deleting a post clears flags.  I also disagree with the general premise that mods should be nagged instead of being taught up front what to do when closing, but that's a subject for a different post.  There's also the occasional question which is about apples or something, and it's not exactly necessary to leave a comment when closing as off-topic.  As noted in the comments:  Given the newer clearer close reasons and the help center, sometimes a comment is not even needed. Mods would basically be repeating whats mentioned on the close banner just a few lines below.
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We've had a number of instances over on Stack Overflow involving users who get to the reputation level where they can comment, then spam comments across the site. Due to the lack of community review around comments, these spammed comments can remain on the site for months before someone notices and flags one. Moderators then have to go and manually remove each of these comments. In the last few months, I've personally had to deal with two users who spammed their website across 200+ questions each.  This isn't just limited to people spamming comments with a URL in them. We've had a number of users spray the same nonsense comment or insult across tons of posts and have no one seem to notice for months.  What I'd like is some kind of system-generated notification when a user has posted a barrage of copied-and-pasted comments. This could possibly be triggered when a user has posted a set number of identical comments in a row (4 of them, maybe) or maybe even if they've posted the same comment multiple times. We receive similar system-generated flags when users post duplicate answers, edit many of their posts in a row, or delete many of their own posts at a time.  This system-generated flag should ignore comments generated by review (which have the same text in them). I'm thinking that it shouldn't ignore comments generated by custom off-topic reasons, because someone using the exact same close reason over and over again might be something we want to look into.  The flag itself won't do anything to a user, and would only appear to moderators. I imagine there will be a number of false positives, but it should be easy for us to check these and identify the well-intentioned stock comments from the problematic ones.   We currently have no means of detecting comment spam, so even if this didn't have a great hit rate it would still be beneficial on the balance. Running sample queries for this seems to indicate that it wouldn't have that much noise.  This would allow us to catch comment spam early, and prevent it from living on the site or developing into a more serious problem.
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Currently, custom flags for moderator attention are not automatically invalidated (marked helpful) when a post gets deleted. Ordinarily, one can retract a moderator flag by going to the post, clicking &quot;flag&quot;, and then &quot;Retract Flag&quot;. This works even if the post has been deleted, provided they can see the post (they have 10,000+ rep, it's their own post, or they have answered it). However, it's not possible to self-remove a flag on a deleted post if they can't see the deleted post, because they can't get to the &quot;flag&quot; button. Is this intended? If not, can this ability please be implemented? As Aurora0001 commented, there is no server-side check, the button is just not visible. Can this please be implemented on the website, or is the fact that it's possible server-side a bug that will soon be fixed by removing it?
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After I  and flagged some spam on the , for a poorly-understood reason, I went back to one of the questions I'd flagged and opened the flag dialog. There, I saw something of little importance, but of less than perfect... perfection:        I had flagged  as spam. I had not flagged the question as "not welcome in our community". And, for what it's worth, I had not added a custom flag, so... that part's right.
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, for example, should certainly be flagged for spam. But to do so, I have to click the question title below and find the answer. Why can't there be a Flag button next to the Recommend Deletion button?
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I happened upon  question, where the questioner commented on every answer with "I'd love an up vote!"    Is it correct to flag such clutter, perhaps as not constructive / off-topic, or is there a better way to correct users that beg for up votes (and similar behavior) via comments.
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Lets start with a life-like scenario.  User A receives an offensive comment in his inbox from the OP of a question. A then clicks on the notification in order to flag the offending comment. A mod sees the flag and deletes the comment. Shortly after, the question is also deleted. Because A clicked on the notification in the inbox, that notification is still in A's inbox, with the offensive part of the comment still visible. Edit: The flag was marked helpful because the post was deleted, not because the comment was deleted by a mod.  Please note that although the behaviour of the notifications is as it is supposed to be, this does not fix the possible problem of such notifications &quot;hanging around&quot;. User A can't get rid of that comment in any way, and it may be a long time before it is flushed out by new messages. This issue is mentioned in  but it is supposed to be that comments on a post that you own can hang around, not on someone else's post.  is speaking about comments which have not been read and this . To me this seem like an important issue. To have to see an offensive message every time you open your inbox is not a good thing. I can think of two ways in which this problem can be avoided:  Make sure notifications for deleted comments don't hang around (this I'm sure is the easier option) Allow users to delete unwanted notifications (this could be useful, as this would also allow users to remove notifications that they are not interested in, or even just to keep their inbox uncluttered. It would most likely be hard to implement, though.)  What are your thoughts on this?
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I noticed that the posts of the recent spam surge on Ask Ubuntu were all edited by community members into something like     EDITED - REMOVED SPAM ANSWER   or similar.  While I understand why the users have done this and I too don't want to leave the spam content visible for longer than absolutely necessary, it made flagging more time consuming for me.  I had to check the revision for every of those possible spam posts to check if it is actually spam, instead of being able to flag directly from the review site. Spam flags carry a serious penalty, I'm not willing to add my spam flag without checking that it's really spam.  I see the benefit of editing spam, but it also causes some more effort for the later flaggers. Should we as a general policy edit out the content of spam posts, or should we deal with them solely by flagging?
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Looking at the flags in the moderator queue, I noticed the following automatic flag.    Clicking on the &quot;review task&quot; link I see the following.    The votes are actually one for deletion and one for &quot;looks good.&quot; Such situation should not be reported as &quot;more delete votes than 'looks good'&quot;; either the text should be fixed to not indicate &quot;more&quot; reviews, or a flag should not be raised in this case.