[jhugo]

... really? Come on. As of this writing, 29 out of 30 posts on page 2 are younger than this post. 30 out of 30 posts on page 3 are younger than this post. 29 out of 30 posts on page 4 are younger than this post. I could keep going. The fact that you can find one outlier and then wave your hands and say "there are many more" doesn't make your argument reasonable.

> Flagging is detrimental to post ranking. And rightfully so.

As I understand it, flagging is to get moderator attention to posts that don't follow the HN guidelines. It's not the general way to punish posts that upset you, that's called downvoting. Treating flags as a "stronger downvote" basically makes the very concept of flagging worthless.

[hu3]

You should have kept going on.

There are multiple posts older than this one that are listed within the first 9 pages, some of them 2 days older even. While this one isn't.

Take a guess why :)