Purely from observation, I don't know the actual internals: For submissions: Flagging is also a "score" internally, which also affects ranking. If it gets over

Purely from observation, I don't know the actual internals: For submissions: Flagging is also a "score" internally, which also affects ranking. If it gets over a threshold, [flagged] gets shown but you can still comment and interact, if it goes over a further threshold it gets "flagkilled" and is [flagged][dead], at which point you can't comment anymore. What the threshold is depends on the other activity on the submission - if something has no/little comments or votes it'll go immediately to [flagged][dead], if there is interaction it takes more flags and the thresholds move further apart. I believe comments can end up in just [flagged] but not [dead] only if a moderator removes the [dead] flag - at least I think I've only seen it on comments a mod replied to.