HN, can we talk about the items being removed from the site?

A post was made this morning regarding the Geeklist sexism controversy[1]. It rose to be third from the top of the home page, and had a ton of comments. It was then flagged and removed from the site. It was posted again[2]. It was flagged again. Then I posted asking why the items were being flagged[3]. Then that got flagged. So at this point, even discussion around flagging was being removed.

Can we have a sensible discussion about flagging on the site? The original post seemed relevant to the site- about a startup's negative response to public complaints. Why did people flag it? More importantly, why did people flag the subsequent discussion? How is that not relevant to the HN community?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3739913

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740378

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3741395