<story><title></title></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ColinWright</author><text>I would guess that people aren&apos;t aware that it doesn&apos;t require moderators to kill an item.  There are plenty of people on HN who don&apos;t want to see meta, or meta-on-meta, and who will happily flag meta items.&lt;p&gt;Enough flags, and it&apos;s dead.&lt;p&gt;Other submissions:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102948&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102948&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102977&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102977&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title></title></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lawnchair_larry</author><text> This is ridiculous. It had 472 upvotes. Moderators, please do not respond to criticism this way.</text></comment>