[systemvoltage]

It encourages the 80% into group think. Flagging is a signifier that “you should not dare to think that was a good comment. Move on and don’t think for yourself”.

[thomassmith65]

That may sometimes be the case, but the apparent reason for many, many flags here is that the content is unoriginal.

I've flagged plenty of comments that I agreed with on HN because they were dull and hackneyed.

[johnb231]

You are doing it wrong. That's where you should downvote, not flag.

Frivolous flagging - as you are doing - could eventually get your account privileges removed.

[FirmwareBurner]

>but the apparent reason for many, many flags here is that the content is unoriginal.

Unoriginal to who? What's unoriginal to you might be original to someone else. So your justification for flagging only reinforces the groupthink argument even if you don't realize it.

[msgodel]

It is a vote order forum though. Pretty much any artificial cybernetics will pigeonhole everyone.