It shows only if you have reported the post, is it possible to add an optional feature to show if the post was reported by someone else together with displaying the status of that report? It's not really that important, but I know that some users care about their stats and don't want bad reports. Maybe there could be a counter of some sort, so if the post was reported let's say 5 times by 5 different users, it would be shown. That way, those who are sensitive to seeing bad reports don't have to act on it if they can see that the previous reports have stayed unhandled by the mods.
Unfortunately the extension can't see what other users reported.
This basically just prevents me from reporting the same post twice, because sometimes I do a lot of reports and it takes mods some time to get through them, so there is a high chance that I'll come across a previously reported post that's still unhandled. That'd be a waste of time for mods.
Even if I could know that someone else reported it, that wouldn't be very useful without knowing
why they reported it, and that may raise privacy issues. At any rate that's not possible.
I've just thrown together a very basic Tampermonkey script which will refresh your report history automatically every x number of seconds if you have it open in a tab. The tab doesn't need to be in focus. I've set the default refresh time to 20 seconds, but it is easily adjusted if you desire. I'm sure you could incorporate something similar in to the extension itself if you wanted, but this seemed easier.
I was thinking about automatic refresh but that solves only part of the real-time tracking issue. I would also have to implement something to update the post status in tabs that are already open, and there is also the delay - I might have 100 posts queued for reporting - so I would need to track the queue as well.
Is it difficult to make this part of the BPIP extension, as yet another optional feature?
To say that it would be a great addition it's an understatement.
I was considering it, but to make it really usable I would have to create a whole UI for configuring those report buttons because users can't modify the code of an extension that's installed permanently.