Except in the second case, even if only a third of the people take the trouble to flag the article, it would have 100 points and 100 flaggings. Hopefully someth

Except in the second case, even if only a third of the people take the trouble to flag the article, it would have 100 points and 100 flaggings. Hopefully something getting flagged that much would be killed pretty quickly. I like making a distinction between something that I simply don't find insightful and something that is actually trolling/spammy/false. In HN's case, my lack of an upvote is equivalent of not finding something insightful... my flagging is an indication of the latter.