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“Any” questions generally receive a few downvotes and there certainly is a group of users that don’t like them, myself included. The problem is whilst they were ruled to be on topic they are essentially a poor loophole to just being a list question which are off topic. These types of questions almost always receive several answers that are “yes, here’s one ...
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Your comment flags on that question were handled by two different moderators.
I didn't handle the flag on the first comment and I'm not a subject matter expert on Harry Potter so I have no comment regarding that flag.
The second comment contains a link to a possible duplicate question and is worth keeping around so that the questions are linked since they ...
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Firstly, I’m not sure how familiar you are with the way SE works in terms of moderation but only elected moderators can handle comment flags not the general community.
Regarding the specific comments, the first doesn’t seem too relevant but it does have some relevance so it’s worth keeping around for that reason.
The second (automated on close/flag) and ...
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All four comments seem relevant.
The first comment opens the possibility of there being classes/levels of killing-ness of the killing curse (e.g. that it's not a binary position where it either kills you or it doesn't). In fairness this could probably be posted as an answer, but it's very terse in its current state.
The second comment advises you that a ...
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Users are moderated mostly by each other and ultimately by moderators.
The fact that one user did a lot of protecting of questions is not, by itself, a problem. Many questions need protecting due to attracting too many low-quality answers. As one of the site's most active reviewers currently, TheLethalCarrot probably sees a lot of these low-quality answers, ...
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As many have observed, one of the last links to Hollywood's beginnings -- he probably met almost every major founder of the industry including Goldwyn and Zukor. Now Olivia de Havilland remains with us and actually is even more striking for having starred in one of the great movies of the 1930s -- hard to believe this. And Norman Lloyd, senior to them both, ...
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There is no way to downvote a comment, you can only upvote them. Please do not flag a comment to “downvote it”, that is not its purpose. Flagging is if there is something wrong with the comment and it needs deleting.
If the comment is wrong and would warrant a downvote if you could then just reply to the comment with one of your own explaining as such.
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Yes, we should. And while we're at it, let's merge recurring-themes into trope (11 questions) too.
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