A new feature was added, but there appears to be no documentation out there. The change in flag weight caused by each flagging still missing.
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.
Flag weight 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 "I am at 250" and when I come back, discover "I am at 280", so I had 3 flags approved.
Nowadays, "I am at 576.3529". 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 "10 flags approved, 3 flags denied, 2 flags pending" 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?