Why would people flag questions?

I prefer to understand what the asker is getting at.

I mostly flag spam.

Some questions are deliberately offensive, or way outside the guidlines.

I flag anything that I think is truly offensive or completely unhelpful (unless it’s really cute or funny) or mean.

Questions are flagged when they do not meet our guidelines or are unclear.

Also spam is flagged.

Flagging for moderation review is what keeps Fluther high quality and sets us apart from other sites.

I flag spam & any question that can be answered with a one word search typed into Google.

http://www.fluther.com/flagquestion/?id=56743

Look at the options there. I flag things if they fit one of those options.

Another brand new person wanting to change the site upon arrival?

@iputthexintexas This is not answerbag or Y!A, thankfully. Here in Fluther the content is controlled and we don’t have to put up with the trolling that so many other Q&A sites are plagued with.

Bad questions get flagged for the reasons given by the Fluther guidelines. Some of these are slightly open to interpretation so one person’s flaggable question may not be another’s, but in general mean, obnoxious, unhelpful, insulting or spam-like questions don’t belong on Fluther.

I flag spam, troll questions and questions so hopelessly written the asker cannot hope to get a helpful response.

I do it to keep the quality of the site high, because that is one of the things that keeps me coming back.

@Jeruba is there something wrong with that?

@iputthexintexas Yes. When you come to a new place, you hang out awhile and become a part of things before you start complaining that you want to to be different.

@iputthexintexas – It wouldn’t be Fluther if everyone tried to make it into a different site. Go with the flow, and enjoy it for what it is, not what it is not.

Well what if one person thinks the question is funny and kinda interesting and another person thinks its to simple or not enough detail? Whose to judge?

We are. And you are. And ultimately, the moderators are.

@iputthexintexas – Bendrew and the folks appointed by them to monitor the complaints are the ones to judge.

If you like a question, give it a Great Question vote. If you don’t think the question should be here, flag it. Then let the mods sort it all out.

The moderators and the collective who do the flagging. Your peers.

Who’s to judge

@La_chica_gomela sorry ‘who’s to judge’ god, if there weren’t people out there who make mistakes like me, there wouldn’t arrogant smucks like yourself to correct them. Thank you for the grammar tip and if your finished i would love to hear your answer to my question which you failed to do. and go ahead and flag this response i don’t care.

@iputthexintexas: Now that you mention it, it’s “too simple.” I wasn’t going to mention it, but now I feel compelled.

i flag spam, things that are really grammatically poor or questions that are completely impossible to understand. also, i flag blatant hate speech.

if someone says something goofy, i don’t really bother. that’s sort of petty.

Well gawrsh @iputthexintexas, I’m just so flattered that you would even want an “arrogant shmuck like me” to answer your question. Well, I guess since you mention it, I’m not “finished”. Since you’re so interested:

”[S]orry ‘who’s to judge’[,] [G]od, if there weren’t people out there who make mistakes like me, there wouldn’t [be] arrogant smucks like [you] to correct them. Thank you for the grammar tip and if you[‘re] finished [I] would love to hear your answer to my question. [G]o ahead and flag this response[.] [I] don’t care.”

Since you obviously take grammar tips to heart so much.

Now, since you said you’re so interested in my answer: I flag questions or answer that don’t meet the guidelines to help maintain high quality at fluther.

I have only flagged one question so far. It was because I thought it was rude, and stupid.
I don’t go around looking for things or people to flag. It has to really offend or bother me.

I rarely flag. It has to be extreme for me to bother.

I have only flagged two answers, and one of them was my own. I had a bit of second thought about where my head was at when I quipped off something rather fast. While we enjoy new people coming to the site, without guidelines, or rules, it would be chaos, you know, sort of like Askville or some of those other lesser sites where it’s nothing more than a bitch-fest and drama party.

Life is about choices, your results may vary.