[fasterthanlime]

> We've taken the [flagged] stigma off the title above, so as not to rub salt in any wounds.

Sending it to page 2 when it's only 3 hours old and has more upvotes than almost everything on page 1 /and/ removing the [flagged] marker feels weirder to me than not doing anything, but eh.

[pvg]

The ranking aims for interestingneses, not points so it makes sense to rank down a discussion of the merits Go a day after the front page has had a long discussion of the merits of Go. Taking off the flagged helps with the 'why was this flagged' meta (a little late now but still) since fewer people assume there is something wrong with the post, other than it happening to be a dupe on HN.

[fasterthanlime]

There's nothing I can say about "this is not actually the same article" and "the two comment sections do not say the same thing at all" that hasn't already been said by many other HN users in response to this moderation thread, so, I'll leave it there, still disappointed.

[pvg]

I haven't read them all and it's not wrong that they aren't the same article or the same discussion but it's HN-wrong. It's definitely disappointing if you have a big J. Winnfieldean 'allow me to retort' lined up but it works that way for pretty decent, time-tested reasons which I think have also been explained in great detail in the various moderation parables and proverbs.