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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by nottorp on Friday February 02, 2024 @11:59AM (#39231074)
s/mods/users? everyone can flag stories.
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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by wolverine876 on Friday February 02, 2024 @12:14PM (#39231268)
It's not flags (or not sufficient to remove the story):

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

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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by lolinder on Friday February 02, 2024 @12:31PM (#39231469)
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.

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