Flagging is a way to sink an item from the front page. I suspect that if there were a way of doing it without killing an item (say, have a per-user 'hide' optio

Flagging is a way to sink an item from the front page. I suspect that if there were a way of doing it without killing an item (say, have a per-user 'hide' option for each item), the flagging rampage would subside.