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I expected this comment, just not so early in the life of this thread. Moving on... cool stuff!

It shouldn't have been flagged though—what's up with that? Why would someone, let alone multiple people, flag OP's comment? It's inoffensive, doesn't violate guidelines whatsoever, and in fact asks a question that I'm sure many people (myself included) feel is quite worthy of asking, so we can read peoples' responses to it.

Using flags to shut down entirely reasonable discussion is very lame.

This whole forum is becoming quite lame. I just haven’t found a better one yet.

Probably because it’s a fairly tired argument that gets rolled out almost automatically in response to any async-IO or high speed IO work. It’s like there’s a group that likes to argue that only the cream of the crop spills get to use nice new things, and the rest of us spills be pleased with what we have already. At this point, it’s a bit “ok thank you”, it don’t add much.

You are not describing a use-case that the flagging feature on this website is intended to be used for—flags are not super-downvotes.

I'm aware, but give people a proxy for something like downvotes, and they'll use them as such. Hackernews tends to have more restraint than reddit on that front, but not immune.

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