btw, I was hoping to talk to a moderator, I am confused why a few of my previous NAA flags were declined; perhaps if any of the mods can show me the light for the reasons of declining the flags; it'll be appreciated
Most of the time we don’t deal with NAA flags. The only time I handle them is when it’s blatantly not an answer, in which case I delete it (which will automatically mark the flag as helpful).
If your NAA flag was declined, there’s a good possibility that it was because it went into the low quality posts review queue and other members of the community disagreed with you.
I can’t speak for the exact flags, because I did not look into it, but this is generally true. Same with VLQ flags.
thanks for your reply! well, I was trying to abide by this rule: "This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether." and then flagging the answer
@orthocresol the panel says "declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it" though :/
the first link should've been better as a comment, it's exactly repeating what had been said in the comments; the second link does not attempt to answer the question; at least that's what I thought
if you could kindly review them both once, please do; thanks!
for the first case, I can agree with the declined flag; just because an answer is short, it does not make it not an answer
There is really not much to say in this question apart from "it is a phenyl group".
The second case is less clear cut. I think that often people do not review NAA flags carefully, and if the answer looks reasonably well-presented, people will think that it's an answer even if it does not address the question at hand.
I have had a few NAA flags declined by the community in this way.
or disputed
For example, this is not an answer, as it does not address the molecule in question at all, instead talking about two unrelated molecules.
I think this may have been the case here. The answer looks fairly ok at first glance and the tendency would therefore be to reject an NAA flag (I do not think that you would have been much more successful going through the review queue).
Technically, the first sentence answers the question: the question is asking "is this possible" and the answer says "It is possible, but must fulfill certain criteria". So, technically speaking, it is an answer. I think it is a crappy one, though, that does not lend any insight into the crux of the matter.
well, i understood the possible reasons of an NAA flag declination, and will keep them in mind from now on, but what is to be done with that answer though?
things don't necessarily have to be tagged with status-xx
when something is implemented, it is status-completed
when we don't want to do something, it is status-declined
but there is not always consensus, you will find that reaching consensus on meta is not a trivial task, and even if we do, many things will still fall under "maybe it would be nice to do this but we either don't have the means to or can't be bothered to"
I will warn you about flagging on meta, we don't like it all that much, we do not curate and tidy up meta.
as such, even if your flags are justified, they may not necessarily be accepted
it is nice to be systematic and have everything put in their rightful place, but at the same time being too... rigid about how things should be, also stifles discussion and turns people away. It is for this reason that we try to keep meta fairly lax on what is allowed in comments, tagging, etc.
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