It is interesting that the above question had been viewed 137 times, 5 people had thought to upvote it, nobody had downvoted it. Then I post it in here to make a point regarding it likely being legitimately favorited, and within 30 seconds it is downvoted
@XanderHenderson I hope it was you
If not, Amy---we've had discussions before about your tendency to "lash out"
@DavidReed Keep your cool. Don't let paranoia subsume you. The discussions, @DavidReed, were about your tendency to be triggered by innocent comments, jump to conclusions, and your need to lash out at the commenters.
You might try adding another tag, if it's relevant, and reviewing/editing your question to make sure it's in top notch form, first. If that doesn't get you far, you can place a bounty. Let me know if and when you'd like to post a bounty.
@amWhy I am perfectly calm. It's not paranoia to say that either you or xander, being the only two occupents of the chat at the time downvoted it, and at the time I perceived you were frustrated with me as a result of misinterpreting what I was aiming to communicate and poor choice of language on my part
@amWhy Furthermore, you are constantly concerned that people that are upset with you are attacking your questions----a psychology major like yourself might wonder whether you were projecting in those instances.
@DavidReed I was not frustrated; I was merely trying to explain how people in fact use favoriting. I don't appreciate accusations nor psychologizing on your part. If you continue to harass me here, I'll flag your last comment, and any continued harassment or denigrating comment from you.
But my recollection of our discussions is more along the lines that you have invested too much of yourself in this site, to the extent that it is likely unhealthy, and that you frequently get yourself into abrasive conversations---including being banned on one instance
I also recall you agreeing with me on that point
I haven't flat out accused you of anything
I had left the room, you then pinged me back in here telling me to keep my cool
and offered an alternative characterization of previous discussions we have had that I recall going quite differently
Can anyone tell me what possibly might be wrong with these two questions 1, 2 to get a downvote each.
If it isn't proper with the site's policies then I would like to know what I am missing. If it's just the preference of some particular user then I think nothing really can be done (even though I have seen PSQs getting upvoted).
Hi all. I've just dismissed a chat flag on a message from apparently about eight hours ago.
Please don't flag old messages. The moderation toolset for chat is designed to help people to rein in discussions that are getting out of hand, but we can't do as much about the past as we can on the main sites.
I'd be happy to help out, but the relevant parties appear to be asleep.
Dear future chatters: good morning, please be kind to each other, have a great day.
Jeebus... this answer was posted with terrible TeX (to the point that it was basically unreadable), but managed to get an upvote before I edited it.
What the what?
@paulplusx Your flag was disputed or declined or whatever because three users who saw the question in the review queue did not feel that the question should be closed.
Declines originate from mods; "disputed" simply means that either the post was edited shortly after your flag, or three users disagreed with your flag.
Usually, when flagging, one can expect many more "disputed" returns from a flag, than the number of flags declined by a mod.
@amWhy Yeah, this is why I prevaricated about the usage of "declined" vs "dispuated". In the example that @paulplusx brings up, the review item clearly shows that three users voted to leave the question open, hence the flag should show as "disputed".
@XanderHenderson I see. Indeed, don't fret so much about a "disputed" result from a flag, @paulplusx. What you really want to minimize are moderator declines.
@XanderHenderson @amWhy Thank you for your advice. Well, I had a moderator decline for a misclick. I used my app and didn't know if a flag could be retracted. No problem at all though. I am slowly getting a hang of it.
The thing that I don't understand is the question is still missing context.
I agree with you on the first, @paulplusx. On the second, it is clearly a reference request, and not a plea for us to prove it for them. In any case, when you flag, do not flag for moderation attention on questions you think are of poor quality, lack effort, and such. And occasionally, a bored mod will handle flags of the sort: "very low-quality", and some of the mods give a canned comment along with a decline.
@amWhy I finally meant for the first one. (I realized about the 2nd a bit late and hence asked you to ignore that one :-). Also, I never flag for mod's attention :-)
@paulplusx I think that this is a perfectly reasonable question...
Oh... I am late to the party.
Everyone else agrees that it is fine, too.
@amWhy According to this answer, a flag can be declined by the community, and does not need moderator intervention. I am still investigating...
This answer also indicates that if you flag a question for closure and three users vote to leave the question open (with no other close votes), then the flag will be shown as "declined" rather than disputed.
@XanderHenderson I've been blind-sighted by my prolonged experience at over 10K and 20K, in which case there are no flags to close, or recommend deletion. So it makes sense that up to a certain rep level, one's flags may very well be decided by a threesome of current users, and not by mods. I was speaking from what my experience has been, since I did not flag often when I was new here.
@amWhy @Xander Yikes, I really wasn't bragging in that comment, just acknowledging I'm out of touch with flags from lower rep users, which with increases in rep, gradually, step by step, are replaced with the privilege to vote to close, probably most prominently, but also wrt answers.... So I understand your correction of my earlier post.
@XanderHenderson I don't either. I mean if we are being asked what the usage of "group" in mathematics means, we can answer; etc. But when a word is ambiguous, not only wrt its use in math, but in general, across the board, I don't consider that on topic, nor about mathematics terminology.
