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Killing can be done by users, too. If a few users (5? 10?) don't like a story and click "flag", it's gone.

Don't blame the site admins for a conspiracy when it's just a few users out of thousands that are responsible.

(The article shouldn't have been killed... I had a good comment there that people can't reply to now. Annoying.)

A fixed number of flags to kill seems silly when the total number of users on the site keeps growing. At the limit everything will get flagged/pulled.

I find it unlikely that the flag threshold is a fixed number. I think I remember pg mentioning something about very new and very highly voted posts having a high and variable flag threshold.

I read somewhere else today that this only works until the topic has less than 10 votes, which does not apply here.

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