I don't think flagging is enough to take a post from #2 to ~#200 in less than five minutes. My guess is the voting ring detector got triggered or it was mod ac

I don't think flagging is enough to take a post from #2 to ~#200 in less than five minutes. My guess is the voting ring detector got triggered or it was mod action. The subsequent submissions of the same story from other outlets going dead suggests that it was mod action.