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@tomhow, who you're replying to, is a HN mod - as such he rarely flags comments - flagging is a HN user action (for users with accounts of sufficient age and standing).

The mods are drawn to [flagged] comments to double check / inspect whether such a thing was warrented, if no one has made a comment as to why something was flagged they might have a guess, add that as a comment - or even reverse the flag.

If I had to guess, the comment you replied to was not flagged as it was a top level comment to be read with a generic non specific "you", however your comment was likely flagged as it appeared to some to have a judgemental tone toward another user - the "you" that you used was a specific non generic you with the comment parent as target.

FWiW I'm a rubber necking drive by user - I didn't flag your comment.

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That makes sense. I am aware that what I'm saying would agitate a certain cohort of commenters who are used to the echo chambers of other communities. They would abuse the flag feature, and the mods on HN aren't free of bias either.

EDIT: Upon some more reflection, I can go back to my old format of posing my skepticism as questions instead of making statements. I guess the brainrot is getting to me.