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FWIW, I haven't noticed a significant change in flagging or downvoting comments, for the conversations I follow. However, there does seem to be a an uptick in flagging posts.

> I would like to see a flag require a submitted textual reason

Thought experiment: how could that be abused? And what would we do about that?

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sql injection? escape all inputs, lol.

go on though, I'm curious.

I was thinking "this person repeated the same comment 10 times" works as well as "they mentioned pudding and i hate pudding"... The bar to click down-arrow instead of up-arrow is lower than limbo-ing under a park bench ATM, that's all...one could inadvertently do it. One could go on a spree just downvoting every comment ever. "Just you try to stop me!" etc.

What happens when the content of a downvote comment itself violates the rules?

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