Without asking the members who clicked "flag", it's hard to know why they did so. I can think of at least three other reasons why users may have flagged it besi

Without asking the members who clicked "flag", it's hard to know why they did so. I can think of at least three other reasons why users may have flagged it besides disagreement: there have been quite a few submissions on the topic already and they've had enough of the topic for now; whether or not they agree with the topic or think it needs to be discussed, they don't think HN is a constructive place for such a discussion; they don't think the given submission has anything to add to what's already been discussed. Please note that I'm not saying that any of these are why members flagged it. I'm just suggesting it's not useful to jump to a particular conclusion without more information. In this case, I don't think it's possible to know definitively given the information at hand.