When this flag will disappear?

When these flag will disapper ?

I mean the Green one with 4 inside.

I gain them trying to help an asker who do not liked my answers (links to the documentation.

Nota: The number stop to increase once I stopped to give him answers …
and
this guy never sent any answer, only questions, and what questions.

I have it since 18 months ago…

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That is new private messages.
You may read them and then it should disappear.

Also you can of course block people or ask them to post publically.