[Timshel]

The current flag system is crap. You can't vouch for something until it's dead and has disappeared ...

[dredmorbius]

You can email mods (<[e-mail]>), though they're often reluctant to restore specific stories, particularly those which are 1) political and 2) have appeared multiple times on the front page recently, though "significant new information" is a mitigating consideration: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450726>.