Well, when something is flagged, users (or at least users with enough karma) can "vouch" for it. I'm not sure what happens then - whether it auto-unflags, or w

Well, when something is flagged, users (or at least users with enough karma) can "vouch" for it. I'm not sure what happens then - whether it auto-unflags, or whether the mods get a notice to take a look, and make a decision whether to override the flags or not. I think the mods do, at times, unflag things that are flagged outside the "vouch" mechanism. One way to trigger that is to email the mods and ask them to look at a particular article. They may look for more than just the content of the article (though I'm pretty sure they look at that). They may also look at their logs to see who flagged it and if there's any pattern of brigading.