Questions tagged [disputed-flags]
A disputed flag is a flag that a community process has determined to not be valid.
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Is using a screenshot and reference link wrong?
I've recently answered a question with a screenshot from a reference site. It was a table so I pasted a screenshot to preserve styling. I also added the reference site link.
This was downvoted by ...
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I don't understand why a flag concerning "spam" was declined
The question is about this answer: Why did this python list get passed by value?
It contains a gibberish text that is in no way related to the question and a link to a crypto exchange website. For me, ...
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An asker inserted insults in a question edit; a ‘rude or abusive’ flag was raised in response. Why was it disputed?
After two edits to a post to remove salutations (and fix typos) the OP rolled back the revisions and edited this into the post:
Edit: Can you like Fuckoff Mr. "insert user name" ? what a ...
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Flag rejected as "Declined", despite author edit, possibly due to interstitial deletion [duplicate]
Normally, when an answer is flagged, and then the answer is subsequently edited into an appropriate answer, the flag is rejected as "Disputed" instead of "Declined". Yesterday, ...
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Does an (admittedly) "wild guess" qualify as an answer or should it be a comment?
Note: Thank you for the answers and discussion. It's clear from the feedback that "wild guesses" are a valid "answer", although not necessarily a good one. I now understand that ...
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This looks like an attempt to reply to the flaggers
Moderators sometimes try to communicate with the flagging community by taking a slightly different approach so our flags get either disputed or declined.
I'm not sure what the moderator (who should ...
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My duplicate-flag was disputed, but the question was marked as a duplicate anyway?
While doing the "First Posts" review queue, I flagged this question as a duplicate of this question. That this is correct, is obvious by looking at both questions, and the first question was ...
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Shouldn't flags such as "close flag due to off-topic" marked as unhelpful be remarked as helpful when a moderator later on closes for same reason?
Shouldn't flags such as close flag due to off-topic marked as unhelpful be remarked as helpful when a moderator later on closes, especially if for same reason?
E.g. A question closed as off-topic in ...
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Why was a flag marked as disputed? [duplicate]
I have flagged recently one post as a duplicate. But the flag was marked as disputed.
But, the post was marked as duplicate in the end.
So, why is my flag disputed?
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No attempt to answer, code-only answer with own library. Isn't that self-promotion in disguise?
I flagged this answer as spam.
The author doesn't even try to find the root cause of the bug. They could have suggested a solution with both technologies (OP's and theirs) and that would have been ...
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Spam flags disputed
I recently flagged two posts of the same user as spam, which were nevertheless disputed and no post was deleted as a result.
I am perfectly aware that accusing someone for spamming is no joke and ...
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Evaluating recently declined flags
I had two flags rejected yesterday. I think I understand the lessons to take away from these, but I want to be certain.
Very Low Quality
The first post appears as though it was meant as a comment ...
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Disputed flag on what I've seen before as spam
I don't get this. My spam flag for this question (now deleted) was disputed. Why?
Posts like that were flagged as just that before, so what gives now?
The post gets deleted by a mod and I'm the bad ...
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What to do about a declined flag that was clearly valid before the OP updated their post?
There was a post on SO that was all written in what I think is Portuguese.
In the past I have tried to translate and update the post but someone rolled back my edit and said I should not translate ...
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I have trouble understanding a VLQ flag that was disputed, given links only
Per a comment I left:
I have trouble understanding the disputed "VLQ" flag. The links here could potentially disappear one day and the rest is all but comments. Honestly, the reviewers aren't doing ...
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