Questions tagged [automatic-flags]
For questions about the automated flags that the Community user generates on posts for various reasons.
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Alert moderators if an edit with at least one "Reject as spam or vandalism" vote is approved
An occurrence that is not all too common, but does happen and can easily go unnoticed, is for an edit to be rejected as spam or vandalism but then wrongfully overridden to approved by the post owner. ...
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Answers with positive score can now be deleted by non-mods?
The way things usually work is that if an answer has a positive score, it can't be deleted by non-mods - neither by manual delete votes (which aren't even available until the score is negative) nor ...
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Allow sites to customize the threshold (currently 20) for comments to trigger a flag from the Community user
When comments below a question or answer exceed 20, there is an automatic flag raised to moderators (PostTooManyCommentsAuto), which also points out that comments are not intended for extended ...
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Unable to translate "abusive or unkind comments" from the user flagged post page
On the moderator page for user posts, the flag monitoring string "{N} abusive or unkind comments in past {M} days, {username}" is not ready to translation:
Please add this string to ...
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Community♦ raised flag for 20+ comments even though most of them are deleted
2 comments left.
But Community♦ raised flag to move comments ('cause there are 20+) to chat.
I guess, only not deleted comments should be counted.
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Raise an autoflag if somebody deletes a post that was previously undeleted by a moderator
Proposal
Raise an automatic flag if a post that was undeleted by a moderator gets deleted by anybody other than a moderator.
Rationale
If a moderator undeletes a post, this usually overrides a ...
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Automatic flags attached to irrelevant posts
I'm a moderator on EE.SE. In the past few days, I've seen the system create automatic flags against a particular user ("more than three rude/NC comments ..."). Now, this particular user can be ...
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The link in the "possible rollback war" flag should be to the revision history, not the post
Currently when the system raises the "possible rollback war" flag it links to the post. This means that when we investigate we have to click through to the post, then click to view the revision ...
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"Possible vandalism: deletions" flag should not be triggered by Community auto-deletion
Currently, the system will raise a "possible vandalism: deletions" flag when a set number of posts by a user have been deleted in a short period.
This also seems to take into account unvoted answers ...
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"low quality/auto" flag text is blank
I've noticed that the "low quality/auto" flag text is blank on superuser.com — this is the specific post, and it's not happening on other sorts of flags.
I'm running Firefox 50.1.0, 64 bit ...
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Possible abuse of “possible comment abuse: too many rude/NC (auto)”
On Computer Science, we've had a series of automatic flags (i.e. flags by Community) “possible comment abuse: too many rude/NC (auto)”.
All the comment flags in question were in fact automatically ...
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Community deletion of comments should raise a moderator flag
At present, truly rude or offensive comments can be deleted by the community with a single flag if they contain particular words or by a group of flags on the same comment. These comment deletions ...
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Why is a "too many comments" auto flag raised even after most of the comments have been deleted?
I recently saw a "too many comments" auto flag on a post which had only two comments on it at the time I saw it. It turns out that a somewhat heated debate had occurred about 40 minutes before the ...
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Automatically Flag Question when only answer is put into LQP review
While reviewing Low Quality Posts in the review queue, I am noticing a pattern that when the answer is the first (and only) answer to a question that is more than a few days old, it is usually a sign ...
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How many characters will tip the post?
I hear that abnormally long posts get automatic flags, but I can't find anything on the exact number of characters that will make it flag-worthy.
What is the number?
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