It’s the official I was told on this forum to do it - but yes, I agree, response is often… slow. A PM seems to work quite well, though. Or use flag and choose ‘other’.
This is very bad advice. Flagging a post is meant to be used to report forum posts that violate the forum rules, so that the moderators can delete those posts quickly, for example if they contain obscenity, spam, or other inappropriate content. Flagging is not meant to call for attention to your own posts, to try to get a faster answer to routine service requests. Doing that is like “crying wolf,” and wastes the moderators’ limited time and attention.
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Oh, is that right? Fortunately, I’ve used it only a few that way and it won’t happen anymore.Thanks for explaining - I thought it had a broader use, but not. Can we use the flag though to ask to move a topic to a different forum? That is what I wanted to use it for the first time, and then the topic was actually not moved, but the issue was picked up!
No, you definitely shouldn’t flag posts for that reason.
If you think a topic should be moved to a different category, you could post in the thread and suggest it, but also understand that that type of post could just add noise to the thread unnecessarily.
If you can’t resist posting to suggest that the topic be moved, you should bear in mind that there are quite a few people in the forum who have the ability to move topics, and they most likely have already seen the post before you, and have decided to leave it where it is. So they may or may not ignore your suggestion.
But regardless of what they do, the fact that you think a topic should be moved to a different category is not a legitimate reason to flag a post.
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