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Hey, relax, I wasn't being hostile, just pointing out that the feature wasn't useful. The only thing the feature would accomplish is adding bias to a submission. If someone sees that the community disagrees with a submission, they're more likely to think of the submission as "bad" before they read it and not upvote it (and probably they're more likely to downvote it). That will be directly reflected in the comments, causing someone who had nice things to say about the submission to not comment lest his karma take a nosedive.

Unless you're talking about a whole "category" of submissions, in which case I have no idea how to divide submissions into different types.

>>palish+(OP)
Oops! I'm sorry for the confusion. I originally wrote that only moderators would see the flagging, but when I edited the post, I lost that part of it. No wonder you hated the idea so much.

As for what I meant by "types of submissions", I had just seen an "ask YCNews" article about republicans and democrats make the front page, that I hoped to silently vote down. I came up with my idea and added this comment (correctly) to the feature request thread, instead of below the parent, but the fact that the idea lost its context escaped me at the time.