So you're effectively introducing short selling1 into the flag-weight arena? I think it's been well covered in financial markets that this implies a high volume of traffic.
I also think that this implies that you're going to be putting a lot more weight into/around flag-weight, and that you intend it to have a higher purpose, when we've been telling everyone to ignore flag-weights in general, because we want them to focus on flagging correctly, and not on gaming the system. Here you're asking us to play games with the system. It's not as though the moderators won't generally know on a glance if the flags are valid or not.
Granted, by opening up some of the flags to 10kers in the first place, you've already allowed them to know which questions are likely to give them a higher flag weight in the first place, indicating that they can already game the system to get as high a flag weight as they would like.
I get the feeling this is some sort of a hedge. I'm not sure what it's a hedge against, but I get that feeling.
I agree that 10k users should know better what's good and what's not on the system, so in that regard, do they really need the reward associated with the Nelson-like exclamation "ha-ha!"
Ok, that's my $0.05
Oh, my point!: How does this conflict or correlate with the previous instructions to people to ignore flag weight as a normal course of action? What is the end game here?
1 Ok, technically it's not short'ing, on account of they're not paying it back, but they are betting against the others, and that's what shorters do. They bet against the other participants in the market.