Seeing how dang danced around user flags here, and outright doesn't see anything unusual about how stories are sunk, I doubt that is done: https://news.ycombina

Seeing how dang danced around user flags here, and outright doesn't see anything unusual about how stories are sunk, I doubt that is done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195297 When was the last time you saw mods mention that flagging privileges of some users have been suspended? For me it was around the Snowden revelations, when there were a lot of articles about that, a lot of complaints about there being too many articles, and apparently abuse of the flagging feature.