I think that the flag should not prohibit comments, since these comment are important; however, perhaps don't display them to anyone without showdead. I also th

I think that the flag should not prohibit comments, since these comment are important; however, perhaps don't display them to anyone without showdead. I also think that a chronological view should be made available. Sometimes is useful to flag for being duplicated, though; it should mark which one it is a duplicate, so that only one copy is flagged and not both. Other than that, I would be OK to get to get rid of flag, and to get rid of voting too, displaying everything only in chronological order and hiding nothing, never expiring anything. Some people don't want that, so that is why should be the options to customize the filter and sort order (and, these are not necessarily the only possibilities).