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For questions about flags which gained affirmative result from the community.

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Last week, I flagged this post as spam, along with its answer. The reason for that being that all 16 answers of that user pointed to the library they wrote and most answers were unattributed up to the ...
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5 votes
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As of today, the Marshal badge has been awarded 3485 times. Is there a ranking of those 3,485 profiles? Their helpful flag totals? I'm aware you can see the total in each user's profile. I couldn't ...
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The Marshal badge's requirements are 500 helpful flags. I have 244. Based on my calculations, the average helpful rate right now on my flags is about 0.682. This means I will need to flag 782 flags to ...
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A while ago (June 16th, 2020), I happened upon an animated GIF as a user's profile avatar. After researching and finding that avatar GIFs were not allowed/prevented, etc. I flagged a post by the ...
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Here is the flag related to this question: Resize with scale - convert jquery to React JS I don't really understand the comment. Why should we allow the bounty to run because there is an answer? An ...
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I flagged this post for recommended closure because it's caused by a typo. My flag was marked as helpful, but the post is still open. What gives?
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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, especially if for same reason? E.g. A question closed as off-topic in ...
Danny Varod's user avatar
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I recently stumbled upon 4 answers from the same user. All these answers were promoting the same piece of software. The user stated in each of his answers that he is working for the company that ...
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6 votes
1 answer
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I raised a not-an-answer (NAA) flag for this post: which was indeed accepted ("helpful"), but did not lead to deletion of the answer. Shouldn't the helpful NAA flag here lead to deletion, or am I ...
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An answer was posted, it was then down-voted and then the OP of the answer commented saying: Why Downvote ???? Thereafter the answer was deleted and my flag was helpful but not because the comment ...
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123 votes
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There's a lot of "We are not a code writing service" comments being flagged. The flag rate for them is increasing and there's now some custom flags complaining about users who write this in their ...
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I'm reviewing and flagging different questions. Mostly flags are marked as helpful or not quickly and some flags are still pending from few weeks. How does Stack Overflow decide which flag is helpful ...
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According to this: If there are still active flags on a post when it is deleted, then those are automatically marked as helpful. ... my understanding is: if there is a question that has 2 delete ...
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1 answer
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I'm pretty new on the site so I might be wrong, but from what I understand from the descriptions of the "Deputy" and "Marshal" badges, your flags have to be labelled as helpful by a moderator. I ...
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For the helpful flags, of the Deputy badge, if a post is flagged already, for the same cause or different cause, when I flag it, does it count towards my flag score?
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