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What to do with really short answers?
I would say the best thing to do is a DV. By all means leave a comment asking them to expand on their answer; but low quality content should be DVed (that is how the sorting process works to always ...
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Can someone clean up these comments?
I removed the comments. No hard feelings I hope. I truly expect batFINGER was trying to help, and not being a troll. Thing is some of us kind of get bothered (myself included) when someone says "I ...
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What should I flag link-only answers as?
I use to flag using the custom reason with something as simple as "Link only answer."
As a mod now, that would be great.
Just so you know among the three general flag types:
not an answer
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Should posts generated with the help of AI be marked as AI-generated content?
Thanks for the thoughtful question and thorough investigation, took me a while to process all this. This is all relatively new, so expect developments in the future, and that some of this may well ...
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Should I be flagging "thanks" comments?
Should +1 and thanks comments be a declined flag?
Should a "thank you" comment be flagged?
Should “Thank you” comments be flagged? (really is a separate post)
If you read some of the posts ...
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What to do with abandoned questions?
As stated in Old, abandoned questions with unaccepted answers we should not close a question just to get rid of it.
We should not be closing questions like Sharp edges while maintaining circular ...
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What does it mean to review a declined flag?
Go to the page linked in the message: Your flags (only viewable to you and mods). This is the same page that the "Helpful Flags" link on the "Activity" tab of your profile page goes to.
There is no ...
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When should an opinion based question be flagged?
ok, take two :)
(if you want to read about "How do I do X" type of questions see my first answer.)
Lets start with the close reason:
primarily opinion-based
Many good questions generate some ...
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Old forgotten unlabeled duplicates?
I would say yes, go ahead and mark it as a duplicate. (I just closed the linked question as duplicate.)
Usually, there is no harm in adding links to a place where other answers may help - the age of ...
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When should an opinion based question be flagged?
First I do not consider "How do I do X" type of questions primarily opinion based. If we are going to say that for example this is primarily opinion based, then nearly every question that is not ...
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What to do with really short answers?
I like Samoth's idea of posting a better answer, with or without a downvote of a correct, but not very detailed one. However, to me two other bits of information should be taken to account: who'd ...
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What am I doing Wrong when flagging?
You are not doing anything wrong, in this case I dismissed you flag for three reasons:
The main one being that despite the obvious lack of detail a probable cause of the issue can be deduced from the ...
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Should posts generated with the help of AI be marked as AI-generated content?
My thoughts on the matter:
As linked in the OP, Stack Overflow outright bans GPT content.
BSE is not Stack Overflow; I don't think there's a rule SO policies apply unless explicitly overridden.
The ...
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How do I thank the moderators for being so responsive to raised flags?
From the comments by Duarte Farrajota Ramos:
paraphrased: StackExchange appears to provide no formal mechanism because it is expected as part of moderation duty.
A good way to show gratitude could be ...
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What to do with really short answers?
I would really encourage not to DV short answers. Commenting about elaboration is good. But if it technically answers the question (what you included), then it is a good answer. There are so many "...
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