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Although users aren't supposed to dismiss them, should questions that really should be addressed with a search engine (e.g., google) be flagged?

Asked by iamthemob (17196points) August 28th, 2010

I just joined yesterday, and I haven’t tried any of the flagging options (out of concern that I might accidentally flag with my touchy trackpad). It seems, however, that the utility of this site is that you get to, in essence, crowdsource problems that must be solved with some sort of creative intelligence, instinct, or outside expertise as opposed to just crawling boolean-style through the web. Are these questions, which generally can be identified if they have objectively correct answers that appear within the first one or two posts, regulated by an administrator? Do other users flag them for the administrator? Or is the attitude “ignore them and move on.” If so, that seems to open up the site to a whole lot of junk content.

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