This happened to me back when the Snowden thing first blew up. I often browsed "new" and would flag dupes/spam. When the Snowden thing first broke, I flagged a

This happened to me back when the Snowden thing first blew up. I often browsed "new" and would flag dupes/spam. When the Snowden thing first broke, I flagged a lot of dupes and subsequently lost flagging privileges. I happened to complain about it once in a comment explaining how I no longer visit "new" since I can't flag and boom - my flag privileges showed back up the next day. No word as to why but it seemed to me that a mod read my comment and changed the account.