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I can no longer flag because I flagged every inappropriate political post on the front page for a couple days. (It was a pretty bad stretch). I knew it wouldn't help much but it made me feel better. As a result I was flag-banned.

I'm guessing that if you're banned from flagging, then the political posts weren't inappropriate, but your behaviour was.

Or it is just a crude "this person flagged too often" filter, and he was actually being helpful and was punished for it.

I used to check the New page for spam and content-free posts, and flag obvious stuff. Then one day I lost flagging.

I believe that if you flag an item that then becomes popular it counts against you. If you flag a story that has a strong voter-ring or sock-puppet gang then, guess what: You end up being on the losing end and the sock-puppets win.

Such is life.

I was flagbanned because I flag all the blatant content marketing posts. Of which there are many, so that likely tripped a switch.