Many older questions and answers here on Meta discuss or mention an "invalid flag" flag, often in the context of the "10k flag queue". However, right now, there's no such flag, and there's no such queue. What is the context of these posts? (In other words, what were these flags and this queue abo...
Lets say a topic is non constructive - off topic and there was no real question to answer and it was a rant-disguised as a question and you flag the post as off topic. but few hours latter you find the post to be closed as non-constructive. on some posts you find the opposite happen. What happens...
What will happen to my flag weight if user get deleted before flag threshold(6 flags) reached? Looks like flags are just get ignored, but shouldn't that plus to our flag weights? I am not serious about it, but just curious. Example posts (all are spam posts, need 10k to view it) http://stacko...
I asked two questions which shouldn't have been asked in the first place. One question was a duplicate and another question was my own misunderstanding about how SO and MSO are counted separately from the remaining 58 SE sites. So, I flagged my own questions. I think that my flag weight increase...
I've been on "flag weight 500 (max)" on main for a while (probably the best part of a day, if not longer), but I've not been awarded the Deputy badge. Am I missing something or is this a bug?
I know that this type of question was asked many time, but I didn't find answers related to my specific questions anywhere. At this answer it is explained about disputed flags of types NAA, VLQ, offensive and spam, by there is no mention about off-topic flags. Here I found explanation that after ...
So I sent this bug report to SE by e-mail, but they told me to post it here... It seems that anyone can create dispute ("invalid flag") flags on any post, even if they don't have the 10k "moderator tools" privileges, simply by modifying a normal "flag" link using standard developer tools in thei...
The problem arises from users who go on systematic hunts for questions that technically fit criteria to be closed, but aren't actually getting in anyone's way. For clarity, this means questions that haven't been recently bumped by organic activity don't have a tag that needs final burnination r...
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