Hi demetrius, interesting to know that Gene Bunin used to be on tatoeba.org, small world :) Flagging here works by people clicking on the "flag" button until a

Hi demetrius, interesting to know that Gene Bunin used to be on tatoeba.org, small world :) Flagging here works by people clicking on the "flag" button until an unknown threshold is reached and the post is marked as [flagged] and is hidden from everyone who doesn't have "showdead" enabled in their profile. People who disagree can click "vouch" to undo the flagging. So in general it is not really possible to give a single reason why something was flagged, but in this case I suspect that people thought this post would result in a flamewar instead of an intelligent discussion and flagged it preemptively.