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No, there's a middle ground where a post is simply de-ranked. Which, absolutely, makes it hard to tell what happened as an outsider. IIRC, basically a "flag" also counts as a bunch of downvotes, in addition to adding up to a threshold where it actually marks a post as "flagged".

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Given the clear conflict of interest at play here (Reddit is a YC company and are seemingly preparing to IPO in the near future) this post would be a great candidate for additional transparency from dang

Now it's fully flagged, and I think the information you just stated means it will stay that way.

I just don't get why a user would flag this.

Another post appears to have been suppressed in the same way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26556187

Probably because it smells like reddit drama and is not really a good basis for a curious debate.

Users flagged it. Moderators didn't see it (until now) and haven't touched it.

Anything else?

No, thanks, I appreciate your response.

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