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by ajb 480 days ago
Yes, most of mine are accidental as I very rarely flag anything deliberately. ~10/year looks like.
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2 per 4 years here (and 1 accidental). I don't really see a reason to flag most submissions. What kinds of things do you, or should we, flag?

My understanding is that flags are for moderator attention (with an automatic system for if people pile flags on the same thing). I'm not sure I see many of those among the submissions, one of the two flags I put was a title that was leading to a mislead and pointless discussion and only a moderator can fix that

I meant, it looks like I accidentally flag ~10 per year. Real flags similar to you.

Obviously spam needs to be flagged. People who are kind enough to do the work of looking at /newest for the rest of us will use it a lot.