Today I flagged  as "low-quality", since it mainly consist in a link to a blog post and a pretty neutral opinion.   The link itself is not really useful too - though interesting, it doesn't deal with the question topic (which is, by the way, pretty opinion-based, and attracted a lot of link-only answers), but nonetheless I decided to avoid the "Not an answer" flag and go for the closest to what I feel.  The flag now is marked as disputed (I know what that means), but is it really? Moreover, two high-rep users already commented on it (with somewhat contrasting opinions, but both think the answer isn't enough), so that should enforce my flag, or at least give it some acknowledgment.  I know, "Just walk way and go on", but I'd like to have a better understanding of it.
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I flagged  as very low quality on the grounds that it was an answer consisting only of links, and was notified:     very low quality – 18 hours ago   declined - a moderator reviewed your   flag, but found no evidence to support it   However, I now see that the answer has been "deleted by Robert Harvey♦ 12 hours ago"  What did I get wrong here? I thought link-only answers were discouraged? Also, the fact that the answer was deleted, suggests that I did not get it wrong.   It is getting somewhat confusing working out what to flag and what not to flag.
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Occasionally I see an old Meta post that has no status tag (like ), but from the answers it looks like the question is resolved.  Example:  should be  since the answers say HTTP compression actually is enabled.  Is it worth flagging these questions, or is that a waste of time?
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I flagged something as spam, then was only 90% sure I'd done so, so I clicked the flag link again to check. It showed me this:    I had, of course, only raised the spam flag, not the offensive/abusive/hate flag, so the latter probably shouldn't be saying I did.    Ah, this may be a duplicate, I didn't search enough:        And if so, it's been around a while.
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I noticed that the  was deleted.   When the  came out, I tried to look for my old answer as well as others for comparison.  Why not just mark the old one superseded by [insert link]?  Note: I don't care about lost rep. There were a lot of useful links in answers and comments there (and some less-than-useful ones too).     Old CoC FAQ may be available  and . Source: (, ).
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This 100 points bonty  was flagged with      no effort is shown at all    and declined   how can we other way make SO better?  I have downvoted this question, but cannot delete it.  Is this question really ok?
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One of my flags for "non-answer" was declined and I was wondering if I misunderstood what "non-answer" means. I saw someone post an answer that was just a block of code, with nothing in it that was even the slightest related to the question, it was just a random block of code with no explanation. Should I have not used the "not an answer" tag even though the description explicitly says that it should be used when answers "do not attempt to answer the question"?
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I don't like such kind of questions on Meta, so I will try to make it a good question and describe all with a details.  Today I down-voted  added a comment with explanations why I down-voted it, and flag it as non constructive (my flag was marked as helpful). An hour later  was downvoted, without any comment left about the reason. Yes, that wasn't my best answer, but in my opinion it answers the question. Well, even if somebody considered my answer incorrect he could add the correct answer, or up-vote the competitive ones. I checked the  who made competitve answer, and he didn't get any rep today for that answer.   It was my second down-vote on Stack Overflow, so I was a little bit down, after that. I think who could considered my answer so completely wrong, and that I thought that maybe it was revenge down-vote. So I checked  of the user I down-voted today, and it was clear that he down-voted some answers today. After I checked that that user cast only 19 downvotes in 8 months, so chances were very big that this was revenge down-voting.  I came to this meta, and searched what I should do in this case. I found that most questions about down-votes, were closed as duplicates. After I found , and found that a team member of Stack Exchange suggested to cast a flag for moderator attention, and explain the situation there.  I did that, and create next flag:     I think after I down-voted this question (and a comment about this), the OP down-voted me in revenge; it's clear from his today's reputation and from timing of my down-vote of his question, and time when one of my answers was downvoted. I cannot be 100% sure about that, but if somebody can check this, and point him that it's not the good way to do.   As you can see, I didn't ask for returning any reputation, or banning that user, I just wanted, somebody to point him, that he did wrong. And after I get this respons on my flag: "declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention." So in the end I also lost 10 points of the flag weight.  After describing all situation in details, I want to know were exactly I was wrong here. And what should I do next time something like this happens?
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I think we can all agree, this sucks:  If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as &quot;The Answer&quot; by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-observed problems with it...  Link is probably broken If link isn't broken, it's spam If link isn't spam, it's to some broadly-related resource that the answerer found by pressing &quot;I'm feeling lucky&quot; when googling the question's title.  ...but the real issue here is that we don't know! Even if the link was originally pointing directly to the most awesomeest answer ever for exactly the question being asked, there's nothing in the answer itself to even hint at what direction we're being pointed in. Strip the markup, and this is what you're left with:  i think you should take The tutorial HERE! This will help you a lot  Is there even one tiny speck of information there? No. Even the title of the page being linked to would have provided something to go on, but that was entirely too much work. So let me be clear: this sort of response is not an answer. If you see this, flag it. Moderators, if you see it flagged, delete it. There's really only one valid exception to this rule, and that's when the question is:  Suggest me some tutorials where i can learn quick.  Don't get me wrong, it's still a bad answer - but when the question is kinda asking for bad answers this is to be expected. Close or flag the question and move on - this is much more efficient than hanging around to babysit it by deleting every crap answer that inevitably shows up. If you're still reading, you're probably getting really bored by now. &quot;Gee, Shog - answers that contain ZERO information are terrible, horrible, very-bad things? What shocking revelations will you share next?&quot; Yeah. It's really simple... Except, . See, the problem is that once you step away from black-and-white &quot;answers / doesn't answer&quot; decision-making, things get... Interesting. And all those other answers with links in them See, this is an answer:  And so is this:  Yes, they're both very short, and yes, they contain links. But strip the markup, and you still get at least a little bit of useful information. Does that mean these answers should forever hang around the site? No, not necessarily - if it turns out they're just not that useful, they should probably still be removed - or at very least, down-voted so that they rank below other answers. Just remember: if the text of the post contains an honest attempt at answering the question, then it is an answer - so don't flag it otherwise, and if you do, don't complain if your flag gets declined. Answers &amp; Apples If you're still confused, forget about answers. Think about apples instead:  Answers are just like that, but less tasty in pies.  1 By which I mean to say, &quot;criminally lazy&quot;
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I went to flag something, and in the flag dialog I got the message  "Your last flag was declined - please review it before flagging this post!"    That's all well and good, but when I went to review my flags, the statement is not accurate.  My last 5 flags were all marked 'helpful'.  The 6th down the list is marked 'declined', but that wasn't my last flag.  The message should probably be modified to correspond to the actual condition that triggers it.  Perhaps it should say     One of your flags was recently declined - please review it before flagging this post!   I'm going to guess that this message is triggered if, of all the flags of mine that have been handled by a moderator, the one that was most recently handled was declined. This isn't necessarily the last flag that I raised (the one I raised most recently), as moderators might handle them in a different order than I raised them, and it's not necessarily the flag at the top of the list.  Thus, calling it my "last" flag seems like it could cause confusion.  Yes, I realize this is extremely minor.
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I've recently flagged the following , which I got in the flag queue.   The answer does not seem to attempt to address the question at all. It looks like a comment on one of the other answers (probably Luca's).  It got rejected with the following reason:  declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies,            or an altogether wrong answer   I did not flag this because I thought it was wrong, I flagged it because I didn't think it was an attempt to answer the question. For what it's worth, I don't get what the guy who provided that answer even tried to say.  Was I wrong to flag it? If so why?
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I have , and so went to flag it as such, but after clicking "it doesn't belong here, or it is a duplicate" and "off topic," I get the following.    I think the question is more suited to Code-Review than any of the sites listed, but there doesn't seem to be an option to flag the question as "belongs on CodeReview." I am sure there is a good reason for this, and am curious to know what it is.
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Several minutes ago there was a  asked on SO, which when originally posted, was just a terrible post, which was hard to determine what was being asked, and there was absolutely no details provided, for which I flagged it as Low-Quality. The OP has less then 10k rep.  This was the entirety of the original post:     I am working on an app which should run only once after the Installation,Even the launcher should be disabled after I quit it   In my Flag-History, I am now seeing that the flag was deemed disputed, and I am confused as to why.  I read that if a post is flagged of low quality, and it is edited, the flags become disputed because they are supposedly supposed to mark questions that are irrecoverable by edits..  The question has since undergone 3 edits by the OP, none of which added much information that would help the community to help them, and the question has also been Closed as not a real question, yet my flag is still marked as disputed..  Does this non-helpful flag have any affect on my flag-history?
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There are lots of questions tagged  that don't have a  response.  How do we interpret this? Is it because they are declined by default? We just have to wait for a response (the team is very busy)? Is Jeff the only one that reviews this questions?  I suppose the ones that have negative votes may (or may not) be declined by default, but there are quite a few with some to a lot upvotes that should have an official answer.
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More than often I get a lot of itch when I see an answer which contains only a link. For example .  Check this link, it will solve your query..   This answer does not explain in any way why and how it solves the OP's concrete problem without the need to click the link. Also, if the link ever goes down, then the whole answer is completely useless. I am very tempted to flag this as &quot;not an answer&quot; and hope that the moderator understands the hint and converts it into a comment. Can I flag them as such? Related:
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This is normally what I see when flagging a post:   Which then provides the following options:    I have come across this problem before. Where I have wanted to flag a question, as not belonging here, but only have limited options.    When this happens, I use a custom flag and write in the reason, but am not happy doing so.  Is this a bug?   What is the best thing to do?
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I know how disputed flags work. Today, I reviewed a "not an answer" flag and marked it as invalid.   I've later seen a disputed message with this reason:     invalid flag         disputed - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to   support it   Given that disputed flags are in the ,  Is this message applicable only to my flag or is this message also for the original flagger?  Or put otherwise, are all disputed flags now shown this message (or similar decline reason)?  I've run out of flags for today to test this further.
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I flagged a  yesterday as a duplicated question and now its status is set to eventinvalidated. I can see this in my Flagging History section.  I'm not sure I understand what it means since the post is still there and has not been deleted. It's the first time I have seen this status.  Could someone enlighten me about that?