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Comment by wolverine876

1 year ago

It's not flags (or not sufficient to remove the story):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231055

Flags are sufficient. I just posted a comment on the comment you linked to: I have many times been the person who pressed "flag" on a story and then watched it immediately disappear.

I think there's some threshold of flags to upvotes and possibly some other metrics that determines whether a story vanishes, but flags can absolutely tip the scales.