A moderator contacted me today via a Comment on an Answer to say that I seemed not to have seen his reply to a flag of mine that he had declined.  Apparently, he had declined several similar ones from me.  I've looked into trying to find and read these moderator replies, now that my attention has been drawn to them, but have had no success.  The closest Meta posting that I could find was  which seems to suggest that a year or so ago they were not able to reply to flags.  If I want to see moderator replies to any of my flags where can I find them?
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The  (click on your number of helpful flags in your profile) is cool, however some posts have a gray background, some don't. What does it mean?  example:
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For example,  was initially posted with horrible formatting, and I mis-read the question. Thinking it was asking something different, I flagged as belonging on .  When I realized my mistake, I felt it would be nice to remove the flag and reduce the moderators' queue. Since this feature does not exist, should a delete flag option be added to the user Flagging History page?  Without nit-picking over the exact text, I propose something similar to:    This option would of course only appear next to flags that have not been evaluated by a moderator.
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With the ever-growing network of Stack Exchange sites as well as the increased traffic and therefore larger number of moderators, the way policy updates and feature changes are currently announced makes it almost impossible for moderators to catch up. Currently, if you as a moderator want to be up to date on what's happening, you have to:  Hang around on Teacher's Lounge all day and be sure to check the starred or pinned messages Visit Meta Stack Overflow and look at the recent feature changes as well as the top questions for the last week or months Wait a few weeks until you receive a newsletter, which only covers the major issues  What you could be missing… This is a process that needs moderators to actively check for any new info. For example, two things I completely missed as a moderator unless some others had informed me:   – I've always been strict about quality flags but it took me a while to see this topic. I just had a talk with @ChrisF yesterday who apparently hadn't seen the topic until now. No offense, but if you want moderators to act consistently, you have to get this information out more reliably. There are new ways for moderators to check review statistics. Those are buried somewhere in a list of links. Unless you check out that page (which I don't do that often), you just won't find these links. The rationale can't be that &quot;you'll find this out when you see it, and then play around with it&quot; – why make these tools in the first place if they shouldn't be used right away?  Now, I can imagine that – even on the larger sites – there are moderators who simply cannot afford to spend the entire day in chat, or even on Meta. Moderating is something most of us to &quot;just for fun&quot;, and often while working. … and why that's bad? But yet, we moderators are the first port of call for support on our sites. You wouldn't want the site mods to respond &quot;Umm, no idea, they must've changed that recently.&quot; And you want them to act consistently (e.g., with regard to the low quality flags). I dare say that if an otherwise very active moderator isn't there for two weeks, they'd miss out on important (policy/feature) changes. A new information feed What I propose is that Stack Exchange actively pushes out small bits of information to all moderators of all sites. Unlike the newsletter, which is only sent every few months, these messages could be kept really short and to the point. In the mod page, you could make a counter for updates:  And there, list all the new stuff, for moderators to read:  You could then just write a small message:  Be more strict on very low quality flags If a very low quality flag doesn't exactly apply, consider declining it with an appropriate message. This is to ensure that validated flags are accurate. See more:   And done. Now you get the information out to every moderator, in a feed that now pushes out the important bits instead of waiting for moderators to find them. This would ensure that moderators who can't check in every day still get news of the critical feature and policy changes, which results in a more consistent moderation experience for the users, and in the end it might also save the team from repeated questions about new features or policies.
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Long story short: since custom flag responses are messages to users like any other (answer, comment, suggested edit, chat message etc.), users should be notified about them!!    A problem I have with flagging, as it currently functions, is that flaggers are not notified about custom responses to flags, when they are given. I really don't care if I don't find out about every last flag of mine, whether it was marked "helpful" or not, but if a moderator went to the effort of typing out a custom response to my flag, explaining why it was or was not helpful, I'd like to see that response. The logical place for this response would be in the messages inbox (the red number thingy in the top left corner), where other responses to user actions (like answers, comments, edits, and chat messages) go.  This may also help to alleviate  of users not realizing that their flags go somewhere -- while I agree with her that "We shouldn't send notifications for [all] flag responses; that would be way too noisy for a lot of people," I think that in the event of a custom response, the flagger should be notified (because some mod thought that this information was relevant to the flagger), and it would not be too noisy because (in my experience1) most flags do not receive a custom response. This could provide one way that flaggers can be made aware of their flagging history.2    1 I don't know who can see this, but  on Mi Yodeya, to date, is 55 flags total (49 helpful), and only one custom response (....that I didn't see for a while, till I checked my flagging history for a different reason).  2 While I don't think that this will replace Monica's suggestion entirely, it would certainly help it a little.    To give credit where credit is due, while I came up with this idea myself, I did notice that someone else had posted about a similar idea earlier in a .  Edit: Just spotted  from the related questions along the side of the page; note that while that proposal is similar to this one, it was about sending all declined flags to the inbox, while I suggested that only the ones with custom responses should make it to the inbox.
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Why does it take so long to review a flag suggested by a user?  When I flag a question or comment, some get a response quickly whereas some of them get a response after few or more hours.  Is there any flag review condition which cause so much time to be taken for different flags?  Or are there different moderators for different flag posted?
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I cannot find the flagging summary on my user profile.  I have seen many questions about flagging system: , , , etc.  I know the results of my flags are not of my business and moderators are responsible for the follow up, but I would like to see the summary as there are other things involved, such as Deputy and Marshal badges.
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A  on  made a  about flagging comments. The part of it I'm questioning is:     If there are more than one comments that should be removed, don't flag them individually because that can make it difficult to see what's what. When viewing a post, moderators see an overlay with the flags on that post. If there are multiple flags, the overlay can obscure the post itself. Instead, flag the post and leave a custom message explaining which comments can be removed and why.   That seems very inconvenient for the flagger, especially if there are a lot of comments.  If the above is only personal preference, shouldn't it be marked as such, rather than as part of the guideline in the post?
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I have the moderator privileges on .  Even though it's quite rare that flags appear over there, it is still quite annoying that once I have done my job with a flag and therefore cannot do anything else with it, the flag in the top bar remains there. Why do I have to keep seeing that flag when in fact, I can't do anything about it?  Images, with free-hand circles:  A flag exists in the notification bar:    I have already done my part of the flag handling:    And yet the flag remains in the notification bar.
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I flagged  as very low quality on the grounds that it was an answer consisting only of links, and was notified:     very low quality – 18 hours ago   declined - a moderator reviewed your   flag, but found no evidence to support it   However, I now see that the answer has been "deleted by Robert Harvey♦ 12 hours ago"  What did I get wrong here? I thought link-only answers were discouraged? Also, the fact that the answer was deleted, suggests that I did not get it wrong.   It is getting somewhat confusing working out what to flag and what not to flag.
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When reviewing flags, either from the queue or from the flagged post, I often want to know what the flagger could have done in addition to, or instead of, flagging for mod attention.  Does he have the rep to downvote?  To comment?  To vote to delete?  Knowing this doesn't necessarily affect how I handle the flag, but if there's a possible teaching moment there I use the flag response to point it out.  But I can't find this out unless I click through to the user's profile (unless I already know this user, of course).  Would it be possible to get the flagger's reputation in a tooltip, like what's already done for comments?
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I happened to glance upon my flagging history and I realized that there was an entry missing from the spam section in it. I had marked 6 posts as spam, out of which 4 were deemed helpful and 1 was declined. I'm not sure what happened to the remaining 1 entry and why it is missing from the history summary. Here is a snapshot of the spam section of my flagging history.    Is this behavior a  or a ?  Note: I've checked my flagging history completely and there is no spam flag which is still in the active state.
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I noticed that the  was deleted.   When the  came out, I tried to look for my old answer as well as others for comparison.  Why not just mark the old one superseded by [insert link]?  Note: I don't care about lost rep. There were a lot of useful links in answers and comments there (and some less-than-useful ones too).     Old CoC FAQ may be available  and . Source: (, ).
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I know that moderator access tool (10k) is required in order to view deleted posts. I am talking about showing deleted comments on users' own posts.   For example,   has  comment which seems for another user (not for me) but I think there should be some comment by another user (which is deleted) and this is the comment for that as a reply. (This is only my guess, there may be no deleted comments as I can't judge).   So, how about letting me see the deleted comments on my own posts?  Hence I am requesting to allow users to show deleted comments on their own post. (Or introduce a new privileges near about 3k etc for being able to see deleted comments on own posts)
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In my notification bar at the top of the page, there's a pretty rude comment about my question, but when I try to look at it, it's already been deleted. I'd really like to be able to respond to that comment (in a polite, professional manner, of course.) Is there any way I can see comments that have been deleted?
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Meanwhile, in August 2009  as reason for comment flagging, and the comment flags show in the 10k tools. And  is on its way. Hence: I don't care for this request myself anymore. An explicit [status-declined] would be fine.    What about being able to set comments to auto-expire? Or, alternatively, set a comment to be removable by the author of the question or answer one comments on?  This way the communities would allow for some personal or funny comments (even like "Thanks") without those comments littering the sites forever. Or, when the original author is allowed to clean up, then comments that have been taken care of by editing the question or answer, could be removed.  Why?  As, , there's no way to send a personal message to other members, I find myself abusing the comments like some "poor man's private messaging system". I try to refrain from things like "Thank you", but sometimes I do want to point out something to someone. After a while (hours, days) I then  to remove them (hoping that no-one actually replied to them with another comment, like "Thanks, fixed it").  Like :    (I don't find this feature request very important (at all), I am quite impressed by what's been given us already, and I doubt there's a way to implement it without making things too confusing. Maybe I'm just trying too hard to keep things tidy and clean. Still, I wanted to share it, just in case someone comes up with something very clever...)
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I flagged a post today, typed out a fairly thorough explanation, clicked the button... and got told that I'd already flagged this post (for something else, which I'd forgotten about) so this flag wasn't allowed.  (This happens if the first flag is still active.)  The dialogue with my explanation was gone at this point, so if I wanted to communicate with the moderators about that, I was going to have to start over.  (In case you're wondering how this could happen, one flag was related to the post itself and one was related to the user -- there being no way to flag a user directly, you have to hang it off of a post.  But I've also seen this with cases where the first flag hangs around unhandled for a week or two and I've forgotten about it.)  Since the system is going to detect that I've already flagged a post and reject a second flag, can it do that after I click the "flag" link instead of waiting until the end of the process?  (Or gray out the link so I can't click it in the first place?)  2015-12-18: someone suggested to me in chat today that this had been implemented, so I tested again.  The behavior has not changed: I flagged a post using "other", then flagged it again (also "other") before the first flag was handled, and the flag was rejected only after I'd typed the message.  (I did this on a site where I'm a moderator so I could then clean up after myself.)
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How is the amount of flags per day calculated, or why was my amount of flags decreased by 1?  I am flagging quite a lot and I know that I got an additional flag from time to time. Last week I had 51 moderator attention flags per day with about 2350 helpful flags and 15 declined flags.  Then another one was declined and my flags decreased to 50 per day.   There is an "old" question: , but its answer is still "flag weight" based and seems outdated. Or is the flag weight still calculated in the background?  It is not that important, but I love to have the flags increased and it is a bit disappointing when one is removed. So what are the rules regarding the number of flags one can raise?