The latest blog post has a graph of raised flags:
You'd expect it to be relatively "smooth" but there's a drop of about 3,000 flags in September 2012 compared to August 2012, and then right after it goes up by 7,000 flags in October. What happened?
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Sign up to join this communityThe latest blog post has a graph of raised flags:
You'd expect it to be relatively "smooth" but there's a drop of about 3,000 flags in September 2012 compared to August 2012, and then right after it goes up by 7,000 flags in October. What happened?
Personally, I don't think that the drop is anything but an outlier. On this graph, it looks like a rather major drop -- till you notice that the graph is truncated. It's an ~8% drop, nothing big.
The rise after that, however, probably can be explained by the introduction of the new review queue.