What is queue weight? I was looking at my pending problems and saw this. What does it mean?

Actually, since users Novices and Students don't have access to that forum, I should probably explain it here.

About a month ago, we reailzed that the queue has grown to an unmanagable size (we had over 200 pending problems then). At that point prolems were voted on and approved on a first come first serve basis. (It was, in other words, a true queue.) We realized that this is pretty bad for new users: somebody submitting a problem would have to wait for over six months before they saw it posted. They would lose interest and never come back to the site.

The problem was, most of the pending puzzles were submitted by the same person, so in effect, the new users were being penalized because of his generocity. So we added a new feature called the queue weight (QW). This allows more users to have their problems voted on and pushed, because now the problems are sorted by QW in ascending order. (That is ALL problems with QW of 1 come before any problem with QW of 2.) QW of each problem is recalculated every night in the following manner:

For each person with submitted problems, their first three get a QW of 1, next three - 2, etc.(It's possible we will consider decreasing this number to two problems or even one, if we see a lot of same people occupying the queue.)

I have finally found it! The thread that explains QW! There's so much in the forums, I knew it would be somewhere.

I'm posting this because QW may have changed since the time this was up at the top. I know that by now the number of QW 1's is only two, so there may have been other changes.

I'd also like to have more details. My first puzzle first appeared in the upper 60's. Does this mean that there are 60 other problems with QW 1? The way QW is described here, it seems to be flawed. Logically, if QW 1s ALL come before higher QWs, wouldn't puzzles from people like Ravi and Gamer never appear until there are less then 10 QW 1 puzzles? How would calculating QW every night change anything? Aren't puzzles the same QW for their whole queue time?

People may respond here and/or that FAQ page

I see, I must have missed a few points. I thought that the QW 1 puzzles were the first puzzles submitted, not the first ones submitted, still in the queue! (that would really create problems). And so also, the puzzles with same QW are sorted by age. It all makes sense now.