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Start with an edge case.

One problem with the low quality flag on answers is it throws those posts into both the review queue and the mod queue and if the person has flagged it, as it's giving "very bad" or "wrong" advice that then leaves it to people who may not be experts in that domain to decide if this is true.

From this viewpoint, it would be a great idea for silver and gold badges to review these types of posts.

It does however raise a difficult point. Aren't mods supposed to decline flags on answers that basically disagree with the content as:

These types of answers should be downvoted?

In all honesty the criteria for raising this type of flag is unclear and your question has demonstrated how it is not clear, as you're now saying it takes experts to review those flags. The implication being, the answers have a "decent" level of content - as least superficially.

So this brings back to the point of:

Can we combine the two flags (NAA and low quality) into "Should be deleted". If a user is especially concerned they could add comment, for reviewers to see, why it should be deleted.

If you then choose to add a search option on the low quality review queue to filter by tags, maybe that would be a simpler solution.

Or combine those and then create one for content disputes, which is probably what a lot of people would prefer.

It's a little confusing, a foot in each camp. Either you want poor quality answers deleted from the site or you want it downvoted. Judging the line between what makes an answer poor quality and an answer can become arbitrary and posts like this You're doing it wrong: A plea for sanity in the Low Quality Posts queue make it all the more confusing, in that we are supposed to leave this content on the site.

The community has been asking for this for a long time now, it would be good if we could finally address it.

Merge the "Not An Answer" and "Very Low Quality" flags into one

Is there any reason to keep the "very low quality" flag? If not, can we remove it immediately? If so, can we rename it to something correct?

The Very Low Quality flag is broken

Is the "very low quality" flag necessary?

for example:

Start with an edge case.

One problem with the low quality flag on answers is it throws those posts into both the review queue and the moderator queue, and if the person has flagged it, as it's giving "very bad" or "wrong" advice that then leaves it to people who may not be experts in that domain to decide if this is true.

From this viewpoint, it would be a great idea for silver and gold badges to review these types of posts.

It does however raise a difficult point. Aren't moderators supposed to decline flags on answers that basically disagree with the content as:

Should these types of answers be downvoted?

In all honesty, the criteria for raising this type of flag are unclear and your question has demonstrated how it is not clear, as you're now saying it takes experts to review those flags. The implication being, the answers have a "decent" level of content - as least superficially.

So this brings back to the point of:

Can we combine the two flags (NAA and low quality) into "Should be deleted"? If a user is especially concerned they could add comment, for reviewers to see, why it should be deleted.

If you then choose to add a search option on the low quality review queue to filter by tags, maybe that would be a simpler solution.

Or combine those and then create one for content disputes, which is probably what a lot of people would prefer.

It's a little confusing, a foot in each camp. Either you want poor quality answers deleted from the site or you want them downvoted. Judging the line between what makes an answer poor quality and an answer can become arbitrary and posts like You're doing it wrong: A plea for sanity in the Low Quality Posts queue make it all the more confusing, in that we are supposed to leave this content on the site.

The community has been asking for this for a long time now, and it would be good if we could finally address it.

• Merge the "Not An Answer" and "Very Low Quality" flags into one

• Is there any reason to keep the "very low quality" flag? If not, can we remove it immediately? If so, can we rename it to something correct?*

• The Very Low Quality flag is broken*

• Is the "very low quality" flag necessary?*

For example:

Start with an edge case.

One problem with the low quality flag on answers is it throws those posts into both the review queue and the mod queue and if the person has flagged it, as it's giving "very bad" or "wrong" advice that then leaves it to people who may not be experts in that domain to decide if this is true.

From this viewpoint, it would be a great idea for silver and gold badges to review these types of posts.

It does however raise a difficult point. Aren't mods supposed to decline flags on answers that basically disagree with the content as:

These types of answers should be downvoted?

In all honesty the criteria for raising this type of flag is unclear and your question has demonstrated how it is not clear, as you're now saying it takes experts to review those flags. The implication being, the answers have a "decent" level of content - as least superficially.

So this brings back to the point of:

Can we combine the two flags (NAA and low quality) into "Should be deleted". If a user is especially concerned they could add comment, for reviewers to see, why it should be deleted.

If you then choose to add a search option on the low quality review queue to filter by tags, maybe that would be a simpler solution.

Or combine those and then create one for content disputes, which is probably what a lot of people would prefer.

It's a little confusing, a foot in each camp. Either you want poor quality answers deleted from the site or you want it downvoted. Judging the line between what makes an answer poor quality and an answer can become arbitrary and posts like this You're doing it wrong: A plea for sanity in the Low Quality Posts queue make it all the more confusing, in that we are supposed to leave this content on the site.

The community has been asking for this for a long time now, it would be good if we could finally address it.

Merge the "Not An Answer" and "Very Low Quality" flags into one

Is there any reason to keep the "very low quality" flag? If not, can we remove it immediately? If so, can we rename it to something correct?

The Very Low Quality flag is broken

Is the "very low quality" flag necessary?

for example:

Start with an edge case.

One problem with the low quality flag on answers is it throws those posts into both the review queue and the mod queue and if the person has flagged it, as it's giving "very bad" or "wrong" advice that then leaves it to people who may not be experts in that domain to decide if this is true.

From this viewpoint, it would be a great idea for silver and gold badges to review these types of posts.

It does however raise a difficult point. Aren't mods supposed to decline flags on answers that basically disagree with the content as:

These types of answers should be downvoted?

In all honesty the criteria for raising this type of flag is unclear and your question has demonstrated how it is not clear, as you're now saying it takes experts to review those flags. The implication being, the answers have a "decent" level of content - as least superficially.

So this brings back to the point of:

Can we combine the two flags (NAA and low quality) into "Should be deleted". If a user is especially concerned they could add comment, for reviewers to see, why it should be deleted.

If you then choose to add a search option on the low quality review queue to filter by tags, maybe that would be a simpler solution.

Or combine those and then create one for content disputes, which is probably what a lot of people would prefer.

It's a little confusing, a foot in each camp. Either you want poor quality answers deleted from the site or you want it downvoted. Judging the line between what makes an answer poor quality and an answer can become arbitrary and posts like this You're doing it wrong: A plea for sanity in the Low Quality Posts queue make it all the more confusing, in that we are supposed to leave this content on the site.

The community has been asking for this for a long time now, it would be good if we could finally address it.

Merge the "Not An Answer" and "Very Low Quality" flags into one

Is there any reason to keep the "very low quality" flag? If not, can we remove it immediately? If so, can we rename it to something correct?

The Very Low Quality flag is broken

Is the "very low quality" flag necessary?

for example:

Start with an edge case.

One problem with the low quality flag on answers is it throws those posts into both the review queue and the mod queue and if the person has flagged it, as it's giving "very bad" or "wrong" advice that then leaves it to people who may not be experts in that domain to decide if this is true.

From this viewpoint, it would be a great idea for silver and gold badges to review these types of posts.

It does however raise a difficult point. Aren't mods supposed to decline flags on answers that basically disagree with the content as:

These types of answers should be downvoted?

In all honesty the criteria for raising this type of flag is unclear and your question has demonstrated how it is not clear, as you're now saying it takes experts to review those flags. The implication being, the answers have a "decent" level of content - as least superficially.

So this brings back to the point of:

Can we combine the two flags (NAA and low quality) into "Should be deleted". If a user is especially concerned they could add comment, for reviewers to see, why it should be deleted.

If you then choose to add a search option on the low quality review queue to filter by tags, maybe that would be a simpler solution.

Or combine those and then create one for content disputes, which is probably what a lot of people would prefer.

It's a little confusing, a foot in each camp. Either you want poor quality answers deleted from the site or you want it downvoted. Judging the line between what makes an answer poor quality and an answer can become arbitrary and posts like this You're doing it wrong: A plea for sanity in the Low Quality Posts queue make it all the more confusing, in that we are supposed to leave this content on the site.

The community has been asking for this for a long time now, it would be good if we could finally address it.

Merge the "Not An Answer" and "Very Low Quality" flags into one

Is there any reason to keep the "very low quality" flag? If not, can we remove it immediately? If so, can we rename it to something correct?

The Very Low Quality flag is broken

Is the "very low quality" flag necessary?

Start with an edge case.

One problem with the low quality flag on answers is it throws those posts into both the review queue and the mod queue and if the person has flagged it, as it's giving "very bad" or "wrong" advice that then leaves it to people who may not be experts in that domain to decide if this is true.

From this viewpoint, it would be a great idea for silver and gold badges to review these types of posts.

It does however raise a difficult point. Aren't mods supposed to decline flags on answers that basically disagree with the content as:

These types of answers should be downvoted?

In all honesty the criteria for raising this type of flag is unclear and your question has demonstrated how it is not clear, as you're now saying it takes experts to review those flags. The implication being, the answers have a "decent" level of content - as least superficially.

So this brings back to the point of:

Can we combine the two flags (NAA and low quality) into "Should be deleted". If a user is especially concerned they could add comment, for reviewers to see, why it should be deleted.

If you then choose to add a search option on the low quality review queue to filter by tags, maybe that would be a simpler solution.

Or combine those and then create one for content disputes, which is probably what a lot of people would prefer.

It's a little confusing, a foot in each camp. Either you want poor quality answers deleted from the site or you want it downvoted. Judging the line between what makes an answer poor quality and an answer can become arbitrary and posts like this You're doing it wrong: A plea for sanity in the Low Quality Posts queue make it all the more confusing, in that we are supposed to leave this content on the site.

The community has been asking for this for a long time now, it would be good if we could finally address it.

Merge the "Not An Answer" and "Very Low Quality" flags into one

Is there any reason to keep the "very low quality" flag? If not, can we remove it immediately? If so, can we rename it to something correct?

The Very Low Quality flag is broken

Is the "very low quality" flag necessary?

for example: