I Came to San Francisco to Change My Life: I Found a Tribe of Depressed Workaholics Living on Top of One Another / alternet

Just now, I flagged a question as "rude or abusive" because it was an on-hold question that had been deleted and reposted. I meant that in the sense of "an abuse of the site", rather than "using foul language".

I figure that's an appropriate use of the flag but yell at me and decline it if not.

(BTW, that flag automatically gives an extra downvote. Does that get undone if the flag is declined?)

@DavidRicherby Generally, that does not really warrant an abusive flag. The main intent of the abusive flag is to delete things that should be deleted as quickly as possible. It also carries a -100 rep penalty if the post is deleted with 6 such flags. If they keep doing it, as in, five times or more, then it might warrant such flag (but I've only seen one such user yet).

By the way, Computer Science Educators reached commitment phase

@DavidRicherby maybe good time to propose "serial repost" flag. Anyway I think that we all use "unclear" for other unlisted reasons all the time. It might be good idea to write own reason in "in need of a moderator intervention" with reason "hold mittigated repost".

@DavidRicherby Please don't. Use a custom moderator flag instead. With an abusive flag, there's no way to know why you flagged except by looking at the context. Our flag dashboard shows the post content by default, but the comments require an extra click. So if your flag isn't supported by the content, please use a custom flag to explain your reasoning, don't expect mods to read your comment before we can understand why you flagged.

@Gilles Ok -- I'll do that next time!