I submitted a custom-reason flag on an answer on "Aug 30 at 11:42", and it is still labeled active. I also have another custom-reason flag on another answer on a different question from "Aug 30 at 13:04" that is labeled active.  Why is this? Has my flag weight changed, or are moderators responding slower than usual to custom-reason flags?
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Looking at my flagging history, I see quite a few (got 8 now) active ones dated as far back as August 9.  Sometimes a flag gets addressed almost instantaneously, other times it just sits &amp; wait there.  Is it because I tend to flag edge cases /debatable stuff (like  questions , or questions posting working code and asking for a code review, which is suitable for CodeReview.SE)? Or am I "flagged" as a trigger-happy flagger and my flags are just being ignored unless they're obviously warranted?  I'm sure it's only because there's too many flags and not enough flag reviewers (is that 10K+ users or just diamonds/mods?), but what would be a "normal" delay for a flag to be reviewed?  --  As I was tagging this question, the  tag came up as a suggestion; this makes me wonder, have I shot myself in the foot? Where can I see my "flag weight" and what's an ok value? Lastly, what can I do to "flag better"?
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My flagging summary page displays "active" for a particular flag that seems to be not actioned yet. What does that mean?
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I posted what I think is a clever answer to:    But then I noticed the question was posted a while ago on Mar 2.  I wanted to see what the chance of the user logging back in and seeing my answer, but the  says the user was seen on Feb 19.  I thought this was supposed to be the date they last logged in? How could they have asked a question on Mar 2 if they haven't logged in since February?  Thanks
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All my flags that were raised before April 2011 are marked as "active", except spam/offensive flags which are marked helpful:        Checking some, they were obviously helpful (e.g. post deleted as result) so most likely the "helpful" bit was not recorded yet back then.  I don't think it should stay "pending" forever, better just remove it and put "status not recorded" or something like that.  Worth also to mention, this is causing a mis-calculation in the new flag history, as reported here:
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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?
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I am seeing the warning that "Some of your recent flags have been declined." on Stack Overflow.  However, looking at my flag history, this is how it is laid out:  38 Flags overall   7 Active Flags 1 Declined yesterday 1 Declined 2 days ago 1 Declined on Jan 23rd 1 Disputed on Feb 18th 27 Helpful since Jul 19, 2013   Do 2 declined flags within 2 days really trigger this warning? It seems like if I had a larger string of declined flags that this would trigger it, but 2 in a row shouldn't trigger it IMHO.
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When we flag questions and answers as spam, abuse or requiring attention, how exactly do the moderators use the information? I'm guessing there's a shared queue somewhere that moderators can all see. Is there some method of knowing whether something that has been flagged has been addressed yet? How do you make sure that two moderators swooping down to fix an edit war don't get into an edit war with each other? How do you see and use the details we enter when we flag a post as requiring moderator attention? Do you see the name of the user who submitted the report, or just the report? Can we see a screenshot of the flag queue? I guess the whole flagging mechanism seems pretty opaque. I'm hoping a moderator can outline the details of what they do with the reports. I know we have the details of , but I'd find it easier to use if I knew what is done with it.
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Update , but there appears to be no documentation out there. The change in flag weight caused by each flagging still missing. TL;DR: Flag weight is not very clear. Just telling the user how many flags got approved/rejected would increase the flagging behavior. Additionally, flag feedback could improve this even more. Question:  is shown on a User's profile as a number between 0 and 750, each user starts with 100. The problem is that after reaching 500, flag weight increases in a sub-linear fashion, and it becomes hard to tell how many flags were considered to be correct or incorrect. I find it easy to remember &quot;I am at 250&quot; and when I come back, discover &quot;I am at 280&quot;, so I had 3 flags approved. Nowadays, &quot;I am at 576.3529&quot;. When I view my profile tomorrow, I'll be at 577.1285 or something, but I won't know how many flags got approved, denied or were ignored.  Would &quot;10 flags approved, 3 flags denied, 2 flags pending&quot; not provide more useful information? Even if it's just a pop-up box (StackExchange seems to use span-title for that). Additionally, being able to see what flags were denied would provide feedback to the user that is flagging in a way not desired by the moderator(s), and improve the flagging quality.  Maybe we can click on the flag weight to see a page with all our flags, the status (approved/denied/pending), the moderator that reviewed the flag, and maybe a comment the moderator left to explain why the flag was denied?
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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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I just flagged a comment as "obsolete" in . To my surprise, it was deleted immediately, just after pressing "Flag Comment".  Now I see it in my flag summary as helpful:        Does this mean that obsolete flags are somehow handled automatically? I went through  but could not find any description on this.
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I just posted an answer. (Revision history .)  I edited it a few seconds later (within my 5 minute grace period), and it comes up as a new revision!? Why?    ^^You can see 'answered 1 min ago', and then 'edited 1 min ago' - how is that possible?  Additionally, !?    I don't think this is a dupe of . See my comments on AI.E's answer. If you're a mod, it will really help.
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If Community ♦ flags something for low quality or because of consecutive closed questions or whatever, I always have to click that the flag was helpful (or declined):      To my understanding, it doesn't make a difference. So, why ask in the first place?
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I like to know it when I do or see something wrong. So I really like our flagging history (x moderator attention flags, y deemed helpful, z declined, etc.)  I specifically find the declined / disputed flags interesting, because one can learn from his faults. However, now you have to scroll through all your good flags, to see your few bad flags.   Can't we have a function to select only the helpful, only the declined or only the disputed? I also consider  to be a very good idea: sort on flag type ('not an answer', 'spam', etc.) too.
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On the meta home page I noticed the  is listed as doing something, but cannot figure out what it is.  There is nothing on the  or its , but the recent activity is listed with the same timestamp.
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I flagged a post and (choose one)   my flag was marked as helpful, yet nothing was done my flag was marked as declined, yet the post was deleted/edited/closed   Why?
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The comment with the Flagged Posts that seems to be new as of today states there are posts with flags awaiting my attention but the counter shows zero and when I go into flagged posts there is nothing waiting for me.
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Currently the Flag feature, on answers, offers five choices. Three of them request moderator attention:   Not an answer Very low quality "Other"   In the spirit of reducing the burden on moderators, and distributing that work a little bit more evenly around the community, I'm proposing a couple of small tweaks to the way answers are flagged.   Eliminate  as an option. Very low quality posts that are, nevertheless, genuine answers do not need moderator attention - they should just be downvoted. (Further justification for this is  and ) Replace  with four specific options:   Should have been a comment - this is not an answer, it is a comment on the question or on another answer. Flagger would then be required to choose which post it should have been a comment on. Should have been an edit - this is not an answer, it is additional information about the question from the original asker. Only appears if the answer is from the same user as the question. Me-too! non-answer - this answer consists of nothing more than "Me too!" or "Did anyone find the answer?" Conversational and irrelevant - this is not an answer, just a random conversation or rant, or meaningless typing that should be deleted    This makes life much easier on the moderators, because now the moderator is not expected to clean up after the bad answer, they merely have to peek at what happened and click "Agree" or "Disagree". If they agree:   Should have been a comment converts the answer to a comment Should have been an edit converts the answer to an edit and it is appended to the question Me-too! non-answer deletes the answer and leaves a form-message for the poster explaining that we don't like "Me too", but they should upvote the question if they think it's important or valuable Conversational and irrelevant - deletes the answer and leaves a form-message for the poster explaining that we are a Q&amp;A site, etc. etc.   In fact, if enough people with high enough flag weight or reputation (FORMULA TBD) apply the same flag, the moderation happens automatically, without moderator involvement.  To prevent the moderation queue from filling up with problems that might cure themselves, these flags don't even go in the moderator queue until some period of time (TBD) has passed.  Thoughts?