Dealing with flags that are really comments
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I've noticed an increase in the number of flagged answers/questions/comments in the forum from less active users treating flags like comments.
Below are 6 of the 11 currently listed flags over the past 19 days.
- "very useful and helped, thx"
- "The script will remove your temp folder and everything contained in it"
- "The advice given here is very dangerous for the user."
- 'Did not answer the question."
- "Wondering what are the exact arguments used to achieved this effect of removing branch point"
- "weird not answer"
The Flagged Content page is useful for the Matlab Central staff to see legitimately questionable content and requests to restore deleted content but it becomes a bit less useful when there are many irrelevant flags.
What are some views on the best approach to dealing with this? Some ideas:
- Just delete the comment-flags (but then you lose potentially useful content)
- Copy the content of the comment-flag as a comment under the question/answer including the commenter's handle, then delete the flag (my preference)
- Same as #2 but do not include the commenter's handle; instead, just note that it was a flag.
- Let the flags be and treat them as another form of comments (that would lead to a cluttered flag list and it becomes more difficult to follow the dialog)
- Let the forum administrators deal with it.
Obviously flags that are addressed to the forum administrators and flags that address questionable content should not be deleted.
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John D'Errico
2020-2-19
Just move an incorrectly posted flag into a comment, where it should have been from the start, then de-flag it.
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Stephen23
2020-2-20
6. Give feedback to TMW that suitably rated users need the ability to change thread object types (without changing their other properties): i.e. move answer to comment, comment to answer, flag to comment, etc.
Then this problem (and several others) have significantly reduced effort for resolving.
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