Timeline for PSA: Please use those flags!
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| Jul 7, 2018 at 0:19 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 25, 2018 at 10:35 | history | edited | userMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 2:51 | comment | added | user64742 | @JanDoggen It certainly doesn't waste the mod's time if you write a custom flag. Whether it is actually necessary is certainly a different issue altogether. | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 11:13 | comment | added | user Mod | @JanDoggen "Can we assume this ... to be accepted across all SE sites" I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. Sites differ in culture as well as traffic levels, so what works here might not work elsewhere in the network. I don't think I've ever had a flag declined because it was too specific, though. Like everything else, it's ultimately a judgement call. The more obvious the situation, the less the need for clarification, in flags and otherwise. | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 11:09 | comment | added | user Mod | @JanDoggen "then it's up to us if we want to make the effort" Absolutely. Please don't take this as "either you write a detailed custom flag or you just don't bother to flag". That's not the intent of this post at all! Rather, if you can, a detailed flag helps the moderator handling the flag; but a flag is always better than no flag if for some reason the flagged content doesn't belong! | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 11:07 | comment | added | user3106 | @MichaelKjörling Can we assume this please do consider providing more details in a custom flag guideline (instead of just clicking nln) to be accepted across all SE sites, or would it require a new discussion to be started on Meta.SE? | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 11:05 | comment | added | user3106 | @MichaelKjörling OK, then it's up to us if we want to make the effort of making it a custom flag with annotation instead of just checking nln. I'm a heavy nln flagger because I think clutter should go, maybe some kind of macro tool can help. | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 10:52 | comment | added | user Mod | @JanDoggen I'm actually pretty certain that it's comment flags in general. It certainly applies to both "rude or abusive" and "no longer needed" flags. Even so, it's quite common to see comment flags in the mod flag queue on Worldbuilding, and when it's obvious from the comment + flag text what the correct action is, it's a one-click action to handle the flag. So even if we lose out a little on the automatic handling, it makes things much easier for the moderator who is manually handling flags, which seems common enough that at least for now, optimizing for that case is worthwhile. | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 7:46 | comment | added | user3106 | I thought that a certain number of "no longer neccesary" comment flags automatically had it deleted. If so, is it the case that these nln flags usually end up in the moderator queue before the automatic system kicks in (i.e. our flagging frequency is low)? | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 13:04 | comment | added | user Mod | As for how to handle comment threads, I'd say that for me personally, I prefer that if only some of the comments have become, for example, obsolete, then flag each; if all comments should be removed, then go ahead and flag just one (or the post itself might be better in that particular case) and say so. Whichever you do, please don't make a diamond moderator redo the work you already did in trying to pick through a lengthy comment discussion; a flag "some comments out of many are obsolete" is prone to cause such unnecessary work. The easier you make it for us, the happier we are. :-) | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 11:20 | comment | added | user Mod | @Mołot That's actually a trickier question. It's not immediately apparent that the user addressed is the one flagging; however, we can apply certain heuristics to reach a reasonable conclusion, or we can dig deeper and get an actual answer. Comment flags are semi-anonymous even to moderators, but who flagged can be dug out if there is a reason to. As an example of a heuristic, is there a comment by you that was deleted by you recently and the one that addresses you is clearly a response to that? When in doubt, if you can, it helps to err to the side of being more explicit than less so. | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 10:19 | comment | added | EKons | @MichaelKjörling It was a joke... | |
| Jun 5, 2018 at 9:49 | comment | added | Mołot |
If comment says @molot and I flag it as no longer needed, is it good enough? And uf there is a whole comment thread that's no longer needed, should I just flag a post with explanation? It was policy on Drupal and worked pretty well here, just making sure.
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| Jun 5, 2018 at 6:21 | comment | added | user Mod | @ΈρικΚωνσταντόπουλος Because few people monitor Meta Stack Exchange, for a start. And not least because here, it can be tailored to the specific site. | |
| Jun 4, 2018 at 18:57 | comment | added | EKons | So many PSAs about flags, why not just post it over mother meta? :P | |
| Jun 2, 2018 at 11:23 | history | asked | userMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |