Sending a notification when a flag is reviewed

Question

There should be a notification when a moderator reviews or looks at a post which you've flagged.

The notification could show the status (helpful, declined, disputed, or something else) of your flag.

Edit

The reason for doing this is so that you would be able to see when a post which you have flagged has received moderator attention, at which point you could go back to the post. This would be good, for instance, if:

• you flagged a post for migration to another site; after migration occurs, you could answer the question, since the FAQ suggests that only unanswered questions should get migrated
• you flagged a post for removal of spam or otherwise nonconstructive content, and the content removal has to be carried out in batches

Answer 1

The vast majority of flags don't need further attention from the flagger. I had suggested showing declined flags in the inbox, but it seems you want all of them. Eek!

What makes more sense would probably be to star ("favorite", but I dislike the term in this case) the question, so it shows up on your profile page once the flag has triggered a change. That way you can do this just for the flags you want to follow up on, without getting inundated with noise for the ones you don't.

Answer 2

You haven't given any reason why this should happen.

The results of your flags are already available in your profile, just click on the number next to the helpful flags caption, or use the URL

https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/flag-summary/[your user ID number]

For you (and only you) this would take you here.

Edit: To answer your specific points:

you flagged a post for migration to another site...

Answers get migrated with the question. The FAQ is suggesting a best practice, this doesn't mean you can't answer before migrating.

you flagged a post for removal of spam or otherwise nonconstructive content, and the content removal has to be carried out in batches

Huh? To me this makes no sense. When a moderator deletes something it's done instantly, by definition a single (flagged) item cannot be deleted "in batches".

Answer 3

Your suggestion doesn't scale well. I've raised over 5000 flags on Stack Overflow; my inbox would be useless to me if it contained such information. Other users have raised even more flags than that.

Additionally if I flag a comment, a question or an answer and it's deleted by a moderator because I flagged it, what action can I then take? Since the answer is that there's nothing for me to do in that case it's just noise. If I needed something else to happen other than post deletion, e.g., check all the user's posts because they all have the same issue I'm flagging, I'd raise a custom flag and say so.

If the moderators have something special to say about my flagging they have the ability to tell me and for one, perhaps two of my flags they did so. That's useful information and already happens.