>What makes something rude or abusive and when should I flag it?
A post should be marked as rude or abusive (formerly known as offensive) if it contains hate speech, obscenities, abuse against people, or abuse of the community or system, i.e., if the post is or contains a clear violation of the Code of Conduct.
Abuse of the system or community is everything that is created with the intention to harm them. This includes posts by users with no useful contributions to the site that contain no useful content at all – i.e. gibberish posts along the lines of: