I’ve emailed Dan and received the same response. My suspicions completely mirror yours. I find this line particularly weak: > We can only guess why users flag

I’ve emailed Dan and received the same response. My suspicions completely mirror yours. I find this line particularly weak: > We can only guess why users flag things It’s not that hard to do some clustering analysis to see if bad-faith actors are repeatedly flagging posts in a coordinated manner. Maybe he’s trying to avoid giving away anti-spam secret sauce, but that doesn’t seem likely given the language of the copypasta. Speaking for myself, I would like any sort of assurance that anything other than a 100% laissez-faire approach to flag abuse is happening.