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For questions about chat flags, which can be used on the chat servers to report inappropriate messages and have high-rep users and moderators deal with them.

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Could we have the ability to mod flag messages in chat mobile view?

Sometimes when there are disruptive chatters I want to mod flag them instead of using contextless spam flags. However, that’s not possible on the chat mobile view. The full extent of my buttons when ...
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Let’s Talk About Chat’s Flagging Notifications and 10k-rep Members

Currently, when a chat flag is raised, any user with at least 10k reputation points and read permissions for that chat room immediately receives a flag notification. This happens regardless of which ...
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Make a chat flag that's less severe than spam/abusive

Currently, in chat, the only flagging options are flagging for moderators and spam/offensive flags. Flagging for moderator attention is something that should generally only be done in cases which ...
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Spam/offensive chat flag bubbles appearing upon opening chat, but there are no flags

These spam/offensive flag bubbles have been appearing upon opening chat a few times to me today, but there aren't any flags, even if I click immediately after I open the page. This has happened to me ...
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How should I handle a valid chat flag when a suspension isn't warranted?

I've already read through A guide to moderating chat, and this isn't covered there. For example, a user might post something slightly over the line that ought to go, but has now returned to productive ...
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Don't notify all moderators for flags on "move comments to chat" chatroom

Sometimes when there are too many comments under a question or answer, the moderator will move all comments to chat, which means creating a chatroom and moving all comments to that chatroom. If ...
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Can you appeal accidental chat suspensions?

I recently was accidentally suspended in the Winter Bash chat (about two weeks ago). The reason for the suspension was that another user flagged my comment (I requested deletion as it had a spoiler ...
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Keep the "flag for moderator" window opened when the user clicks on OK with an empty input text field and/or have some error/warning message

Since clicking on OK in the “flag for moderator” window with an empty input text field doesn't raise any flag, it'd be more user-friendly to keep the "flag for moderator" window opened after the user ...
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Does clicking on OK in the "flag for moderator" window with an empty input text field raise any flag?

Does clicking on OK in the "flag for moderator" window with an empty input text field raise any flag?
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Why did Feeds delete my chat message?

I posted a message in Charcoal HQ today (to add a new website to SmokeDetector's watchlist) and while it was acknowledged by the bot, it was promptly deleted. The message history says it was deleted ...
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Let me skip flags I'm unsure about in chat

I clicked on "not sure" on a chat flag because it was in Russian, which I don't speak, then tried to see the next (it indicated that there were 5), but it just showed a "show all" box. When I clicked ...
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How do I check if a chat flag has been reviewed?

How do I check if a flag I’ve done in chat has been reviewed? If I wasn’t busy at the time I flagged, I would have hung around and see if extra users came into the chat, but I was busy.
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Clarifications for suspensions in chat

Just now, I was suspended from MSE chat. I was told not to bring up certain topics and was silenced for 30 seconds, so I accepted this and refrained from discussing the topic. Shortly after that as ...
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Flagging a message by a moderator resulted in a suspension from another moderator [closed]

What can a person do if they flagged a chat message posted by a moderator that is spam, inappropriate, and/or offensive, and then another moderator suspends that person that flagged the original ...
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How can messages in a chat transcript be flagged? [duplicate]

For messages in chat, clicking on the drop-down icon will allow rude or abusive messages to be flagged. I've noticed that messages in a transcript can no longer be flagged. I seem to recall that it ...
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