I'm sorry you missed your opportunity to comment in the main thread. There are thousands of users on this site that have flagging capability, and I can't read t

I'm sorry you missed your opportunity to comment in the main thread. There are thousands of users on this site that have flagging capability, and I can't read their minds. But I suspect the overall desire to flag these extra threads stems from the fact that the news has been reported on, and people have moved on. HN isn't a multipurpose soapbox, it's a news aggregator. If it's not news...