Why are you able to flag your own questions/responses "as abuse"?

Those are for the people with multiple personalities that often disagree with each other.:)

Sorry I don’t know the answer but, I think they felt most people would not flag there own questions as abuse, so they left it on the default.

In case you accidentally double-post a question or answer (which occasionally happens) you can flag it as a duplicate for removal.

@sferik thanks, that makes sense.
so if you flag a response as abuse or someone flags your response, is that reflected in some way on your account or score? in other words, does it have any adverse effects?

For those who have never checked the flag as abuse button for fear of ruining someone’s rep. here are the choices you find behind the flag.

Get rid of this answer! It is…

* Spam
* Obscene
* Dumb
* Full of lies
* Something else

Thanks for the answer sferik, I always felt flag as abuse sounded so harsh.

@ccatron there are no immediate negative consequences of flagging a response as abuse (otherwise it would be prone to abuse). It doesn’t affect your score. It simply alerts the moderators, who may or may not take action.