I'm not entirely convinced it was an answer, but the fact that y'all are not in perfect agreement on that is sufficient evidence that it was at least a grey area.
VLQ - a short, tangential partial-answer-at-best with bad punctuation and spelling... Someone basically too lazy to pick up their own trash. That's VLQ.
@AmalMurali I also deleted the answer because the accepted answer here went into significantly more details besides just linking to the preg_match documentation
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1) You probably don't need to flag. The system gives you a bunch of tools to handle stuff yourself - use them!
2) If there's a serious problem that you can't fix, make sure you understand what it is before you go any further.
3) Pick the flag that best describes the problem you've observed. If NONE of them match particularly well, choose "other" and describe the problem in detail.
Generally when folks have problems, it's because they screwed up on #1 or #2. Examples:
- Flagging wrong answers. Correct it or downvote it! - Flagging things that need to be edited. Just edit it! - Flagging when you didn't get an answer or your answer didn't get accepted/upvoted. Make your posts suck less!
@AmalMurali I can say that when I used to go through the 10k review queue - there are many things incorrectly flagged in and users just pile on more flags because it is in the queue already
@bluefeet: You're right. I used to do that, but now I've stopped.
Is the number of declined flags too much? I remember asking this before, but I'll ask it again since I can get a direct opinion from the moderators themselves :P
@jadarnel27 I get how sharing that with the people in this room could provide some support, but after such significant events it's often wise to seek professional help.
I have what should be a very simple questions for Brownian motion experts...
Let $[a,b]$ be a given time interval. Let $f(x)$ be the probability that a linear Brownian motion with initial value $x$ at time $t=0$ has a zero in the interval $[a,b]$. I want to argue that $f(x)$ is maximal for $x=0$....
I'm still trying to figure out why I get 100 flag votes a day, and only 50 close votes, when there are like at least 80times as many things to close than to flag.
Hey I think the Community Wiki FAQ is wrong for the number of edits that a post becomes CW: it says "The post has been edited† ten (10) times by the original owner."
But I have this answer (edited 10 times) which is not community wiki and this answer (becomes CW on 11th edit).
So it seems the FAQ should read "The post has been edited† more than ten (10) times by the original owner." Should I edit the FAQ or ask a meta question about it?
I wrote up a question about it but figured actually maybe I don't need to ask it and I should just edit the FAQ.
Yep. Heck, have a look at my highest voted question. That was "coincidentally" the same question as asked by another user at the same time.
It's even more surprising when you realize that I don't really speak English at all. I've just learned all these phrases by heart. So far I've just been lucky.
I flagged a post and (choose one)
my flag was marked as helpful, yet nothing was done
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