[vinceguidry]

EDIT: Why was this post flagged? Comments now disabled?

I think you're running into the comment-cooldown feature. The reply button doesn't appear until a comment has been live for a couple of minutes. I'm not a big fan of the feature, it leads a lot of people to think they're being messed with by the moderators.

[reustle]

Hmm possibly. The story showed [flagged] on the left of the title, next to the upvote button. I don't think comment cooldown would trigger that?

[dang]

When you see [flagged] it means that users flagged the story and that there are enough flags to predominate over the upvotes. If [flagged] goes away it means that upvotes regained the upper hand.

But please don't take HN threads even further off-topic by editing your comment to complain about this kind of thing. The way to get an answer, as the guidelines explicitly say (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) is to email [e-mail].