[slumberlust]

Close. Takes tenured accounts to unflag and any schmohawk can flag. That dicotomy alone makes things way more likely to be flagged on average.

[jacquesm]

There are enough trump supporting idiots on HN that flags on such articles are meaningless. They really don't like being confronted with the truth.

[johnnyanmac]

Very tenured apparently. I certainly can't unflag and I'm relatively active on a mature account.

I do wonder of boosting the flag threshold for posts to double that of a downvote would change much. Probably not depending on the flag threshold and of this truly is coordinatied