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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page by dang on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:42PM (#13859488)
It's both. It's like a downvote in that it affects rank, and like reporting a post in that we monitor the flagged articles and take action based on flags. Sometimes the action is to turn the flags off.
Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page by tokenizerrr on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:55PM (#13859650)
Is there a threshold to the amount of flags you look at? If I am the only person to flag your comment here, would a moderator wind up looking at that flag?