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When should I really flag or vote down?

Sorry if this has already been asked, I could not find an appropriate answer and I want to make sure that I understand these features. Question: what's the most correct way to use flags and down-...
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Migrating to cs.SE as a "flag" option

Currently non-moderators can flag off-topic posts and suggest that it either belongs in meta or on stackoverflow. It seems that cs.SE is a target that makes at least as much sense as stackoverflow for ...
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Is there any guidance re flagging as "very low quality" beyond its description?

While I was reviewing, I flagged https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/17571/context-free-language as "very low quality", although I was somewhat hesitant about doing so. Was I correct to ...
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What should I do after posting an inappropriate question?

I have realized that I posted a question which was not suitable on the website. What should I do?
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Why obsolete comment flag should be rejected?

It's a rule to not asking for a reason of downvote, because everyone already encouraged to write a reason of a downvote and when he/she don't want to write the reason, asking again about downvote is ...
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Can we control flag settings? [duplicate]

I was marking a question as off-topic and the modal made me choose only between these two options: belongs to meta.cstheory.stackexchange.com belongs to stackoverflow.com Is that list automatically ...
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Does one get rep for helpful flags

It is not so much that I am worried about rep, but I like to understand. I actually had 2 rep point on a question that was migrated, and as far as I can recall or trace on the question, my only ...
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In which way this question is a research level?

I flagged this question as needs moderator attention and in my reason I wrote, is not a research level, but moderator rejected the flag. I want to know in which way someone can consider it as a ...
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Flags with more colors?

Related question. When you flag a question as "it does not belong to this site", you end-up in the following menu. The question is, could it be useful to include some more choices in this menu such ...
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Can I know the status of a post I flagged?

I flagged the second answer in a question I asked because it is only a reply to a comment I left in the first answer. Ideally, there should be only one answer with an update, but the user is new and ...
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