Recognize edits that happened after the VLQ flag but during grace period as flag-validating ones

Question

This feature request is posted as a follow-up to discussion in comments related to flagging very low quality "drafts" of fastest gun answers:

edits to a post flagged as Very Low Quality will immediately dismiss that flag as helpful. So you really don't have to worry about flagging a post that's abysmally bad now - if it gets fixed before it gets into review, your flag will silently go away.

Q: if edit happened after the flag but during grace period, can system distinguish that as a flag-validating edit?

A: It could... but it currently doesn't. (went and tested this to make sure)

Suggest to enable system to recognize edits that happened after the VLQ flag but during grace period as flag-validating ones.

The way how things work now looks like breaking the intent stated in above quote: "you really don't have to worry about flagging a post that's abysmally bad now..."

Answer 1

Sort of workaround for this issue became available due to recent changes to the system. Prior to flagging an answer that looks incomplete, one can ask to clarify this in comments. Like this:

this answer looks incomplete, why?

Mentioned system change makes comments reset grace period, so that in case if author improves the post, there will be a guaranteed, recognizable new post revision after your comment.

For VLQ/NAA flags, new post revision will automatically dismiss these as helpful.

Answer 2

Don't really have an issue with this, but I also don't think it's really as much of a problem as folks think it is^*.

Over the past 30 days, 85% of all Very Low Quality flags on Stack Overflow answers were marked helpful. For those raised within 5 minutes of a post's life, the helpful rate goes up to 87%. That leaves only 41 FGITW VLQ flags on Stack Overflow answers during this period that weren't helpful - 39 of which were marked "disputed" by review.

Determining which (if any) of these were edited during the grace period is do-able, but tedious - so let's do a quick sanity-check instead. Here are the 39 answers:

• https://stackoverflow.com/q/22929000
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/22930737
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/22934192
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/22935140
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/22977865
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/22987925
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23008712
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23031233
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23054431
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23076476
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23079270
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23079339
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23105308
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23129105
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23158359
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23167995
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23196019
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23196447
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23199150
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23223609
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23269034
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23309740
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23319161
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23332576
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23333219
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23337963
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23405766
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23410807
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23418331
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23423164
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23428753
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23441360
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23457519
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23460210
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23462193
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23465576
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23492803
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23505746
• https://stackoverflow.com/q/23518344

^{*_{Not that anyone here sleeps with the lights on for fear that the FGITW under their bed will eat them, mind you}}