When flagging, there is available the following flag reason:
It states:
This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.
But the above flag got denied with the following motivation:
flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer
Then my question is: when is it appropriate to use this flag?
This flag is supposed to be used for answer completely devoid of useful content. When an answer is just bad, the usual way to handle it is downvote it. Then the community can vote to delete an answer without requiring mod intervention.
This difference is a very subjective one. Which answers are so bad they need to go immediately by mod fiat and which can stay on the site and be handled through the community is decided by mods on a case-by-case basis. There is no strict guideline for this.
Please don't feel bad when such a flag gets rejected. Your help is always appreciated.
