I quit going to /newest once I lost my flagging privileges [0]. I found value in flagging spam, but once I could no longer do that, my contribution to the commu

I quit going to /newest once I lost my flagging privileges [0]. I found value in flagging spam, but once I could no longer do that, my contribution to the community was solely voting on stories that had already hit the front page. [0] You lose flagging privileges permanently if you flag often in a short period of time. There was some major story in which there were 20+ dupes of every story (maybe Snowden's first day or two IIRC). I lost my flagging privileges after flagging too many duplicates. So be careful about flagging in /newest