Change the requirements for the Marshal badge

Question

There has been a lot of discussion on flag-weight, its worth, etc. Clearly, the introduction of the gold Marshal badge has rejuvenated a lot of inactive flaggers and people would be less inclined to flag borderline ones because of the enormous drop in flag weight compared to the micro-gain.

I propose changing the requirements for the badge to:

Provided 600 helpful flags and 95% or more flags are helpful.

This will allow people to absorb the hit from a few declined flags more easily yet, maintains the difficulty in acquiring the badge. It also brings the silver and gold badges more in line with other similar badges for voting, namely Civic Duty and Electorate

       |              Voting              |              Flagging                
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Silver | Voted 300 times                  | Achieved a flag weight of 500      
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Gold   | 600 votes on Q, with 25% or more | 600 helpful flags, with 95% or    
       | of total votes on questions.     | more of total flags being helpful. 
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The number 600 above is roughly how many flags that are required to reach 750 at present, if one were to have no declined flags. This number can be tweaked/changed as the team sees fit. The crux of the request is the shift from focusing on flag weight to %age of helpful flags.

Answer 1

The badges are totally in line with the editing badges now.

Marshal = Raised 500 helpful flags

Deputy = Raised 80 helpful flags

I know what you are wondering.... what if people start abusing this now that they can just flag stuff randomly without getting punished with a bullet at the back of their head. Well it will work just the same way as the editing badges do, we use other queries to find abuse and deal with it if it happens.