Flagging is the digital equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum when the balance of your echo chamber has been disturbed.

I don't know if that's fair. It certainly can be that, but it's also nice to be able to remove things like:

- blogspam

- flame bait (with the obvious caveats)

- excessive reposts

etc.

It just sucks when something like this gets swept up.

Not always, but a lot of the flagging seems to be that, yes.