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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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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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Why was my spam flag disputed when another user's flag helpful?
Earlier I saw this answer (screenshot for <10K users) in the Low Quality review queue (it is now deleted so the review queue page I saw the answer in is the only way I can see it). I immediately ...
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Was I wrong to flag this as NAA? [duplicate]
I flagged this answer based on the NAA flag description:
This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or ...
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Flagging non-English post disputed after the post is translated
I was doing a review on this answer. The answer was in an non-English language (with only English code snippets). I marked this as "Not an answer" following Meta guidelines here:
We require English ...
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Is this link-only answer ok?
I came across this answer a while ago and flagged it as not being a 'proper' answer, because it contains no information other than a link to an MSDN page where one of the comments included the ...
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Offensive flag disputed after offensiveness being fixed by another user?
I was doing a review and flagged a specific short offensive answer like this:
I am familiar with that platform, and ...
This is occurring because you're an idiot, didn't read the chapter
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Disputed flag for low quality answer
Why was this flag regarding a low-quality answer disputed?
why am I getting IOError: (9, 'Bad file descriptor') error while making print statements?
This "answer" just provides a link with ...
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Flag disputed on "I'm having this problem too" Answer
I recently found this question about integrating the MapBox API into a iOS Swift project. I flagged this answer as NAA because it does not really attempt to answer the question, and is mostly an "I'm ...
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How is this specific answer not "not an answer"?
Answer in question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30589831
It is a post by the OP, clearly meant as an edit to their question. I made the edit and flagged the answer. But the flag was disputed.
What ...
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For the question "How is X implemented", is "it's trivial using feature Y" an answer?
I flagged this answer as not-an-answer because it says nothing more than "variadic templates are involved", which is not a sufficient answer (note that the real answer, above, is actually fairly ...
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NAA-flag was disputed [duplicate]
I flagged this answer as:
it is not an answer
This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted ...
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Why was my not-an-answer flag disputed? Does that mean these kind of answers are welcome?
I flagged this answer (10K) recently, and it should probably be a comment. But my flag was disputed. I know it was disputed, because some says "Recommend deletion" and others says "Looks Ok". That's ...
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