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1:27 AM

Straw poll: who here thinks chat flags are effective for their intended purpose?

For seeing which two or more chatters are bickering or flaming each other on, yes, if you see it within that first 10 seconds before someone else dismisses the flag showing the exit wound of a sawn-off shotgun

Geobits

I see someone's having fun with flags.

random

Are we straw polling here people, or are we dancer?

Shog9

Geobits

Oh, sorry, polling... uh... they are sometimes effective, but most I see are not worth validating, if looked at in context.

If given a binary choice: no.

random

1:39 AM

Depends on who is handling it and what the bickering is about

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Q: Add escalation system to chat flags

The offensive/spam flags in chat are shown to every moderator from a parent site (on chat.stackexchange.com that is every SE 2.0 moderator, more than 200 right now) and 10k chat users as well. This is potentially far more users than a flag on an SE site itself is shown to. I don't think it is n...