The reason I ask - I'm kind of struggling to understand why a post I made here got marked as "abuse"... It seems to me that the post was on topic - in fact it got marked as an answer... I'm confused. I posted an answer that I thought was on topic. I didn't cuss or swear or lead the poster astray - and yet, my post eventually got marked with a red box... If it was abusive, you'd think Ronnie Vernon would have dealt with it differently namely spanked me verbally, not rewarded the post by marking it as the answer... So what's the deal?
Hi Wolfie
As you already know, any member can mark any post as abusive. Sometimes a member will do this just because they do not agree with the answer, or they may just do it as a joke. We do try to catch this when it happens for no good reason. Only a moderator can actually see who marked the post as abusive.
In that thread that you refer to, I marked your post as the answer and then another member subsequently marked it as abusive. Later, another moderator removed the abusive flag. If I told you the reason that was stated by the member who marked it as abusive, it would make it obvious who had marked it, so I cannot do that, except to say that it was not a legitimate reason.
If this starts happening often to any particular member, for no good reason, we will take the appropriate action to stop it.
Regards,
Thank You for testing Windows 7
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