There are so many stories like this, it is crazy! Thank you for sharing this.
If the flagging is done by a human, is there really no "case file" that records the previous flags and why they were false positives? If it is done by an automated system, why is it allowed to flag things that a human has already cleared with no change?
Long time after I'd last used that account, I logged-in again and, you guessed it, the image was flagged. Requested yet another review, approved. Was it really that hard for them to trigger human reviews before restricting content that had already been reviewed?
Beyond their interest in doing, or their (low, low) budget to do at scale? Yes.
I completely disagree, there aren't many stories like this. In fact I don't remember reading any on HN.