Comment by _heimdall

All great context, thanks for weighing in here with so many details!

Anecdotally I can say that I've accidentally flagged a couple articles on mobile, the same goes for accidentally downvoting though its easy enough to notice that and fix it with the upvote I intended.

My reason for asking initially was mostly out of curiosity. I wasn't actually aware that there was a [dead] state separate from [flagged]. The few threads I've commented on and were later flagged just always make me wonder what the flag was for.

Its a larger ask of users with regards to moderation, but I could see it being really interesting to test out linking flags to comments. I.e. a user has to enter a comment when flagging a thread, potentially it is shown without the username visible for privacy.

Just my two cents though, thanks for following up here!