Beyond downvotes. there's flagging. It doesn't take many flags from higher-karma accounts to kill a comment from a new account, nor does it take many killed com

Beyond downvotes. there's flagging. It doesn't take many flags from higher-karma accounts to kill a comment from a new account, nor does it take many killed comments to shadowban a new account. To protect against false positives, accounts with enough karma can vouch for dead comments to bring them back to life.