Are there community guidelines for the Feedback board?

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That is, here:
http://yahoo.uservoice.com/forums/209451-us-groups/

I accidentally clicked on "Flag as inappropriate" for one person's comment, and found that there is neither an ability for me to indicate why, nor an ability to reverse the Flag. I'm looking for guidance as to what should be Flagged. 

I think it is obvious that offensive or obscene material should be flagged. 

But what about something which is merely off-topic. Say there's a Suggestion about Yahoo Groups in the Groups Feedback board, and someone adds a non-sequitur comment about Yahoo Mail? What if that off-topic comment is a rant?

What about rants generally?

The community guidelines here in Answers encourage members to help enforce the guidelines by reporting Abuse, and what constitutes abuse is fairly broadly defined, starting with offensive material but going far beyond that. However, the Feedback Board is not Answers, so I don't assume that the same guidelines would apply (in fact, I think that would be inappropriate).

Echo Sanders · Accepted Answer

Hi Shal, 

That system is very new and no guidelines have been published. I don't think at this time you can unflag anything once flagged. As that is not really a community but rather a ratings board for topics, I'm not sure if they will ever have real criteria for that sort of stuff.

It's my understanding that anything off topic or inappropriate should get flagged.  I'll bring this up with the person who manages that and see if they can provide any further guidance on the issue. My guess at this time is that they will be removing that stuff if it's flagged by enough people but I can't be certain. 

Hope that helps!

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Are there community guidelines for the Feedback board?

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