It's the only way to prune the rose bush. Shit was getting pretty wilted.

No, it wasn't. Some of us have flag options for a reason.

Apparently a lot of people disagree with you, given the number of Erlang articles. Not that it's a very good way to deal with the problem.

Not that said "problem" can be identified objectively, anyway.

Not that flagging does enough anymore even if you did agree there was a problem, thanks to the fact that herd upvotes are now taken into account when determining how many flags are necessary.