Mechanically any user with sufficient karma can click "flag" on comments, enough people clicking that and it get's flagged and people without show dead on it do

Mechanically any user with sufficient karma can click "flag" on comments, enough people clicking that and it get's flagged and people without show dead on it don't see it. I didn't flag your comment, but I came very close to doing so. Personally I couldn't figure out what you were trying to say. What am I supposed to be deciding for myself? Are the organized groups you're referring to companies trying to use GPL code without a license? Groups trying to use the GPL as a tool to get access to other companies closed source code? IP lawyers trying to make a profit? Something else? Flagging nonsense (as in literally not-understandable comments) seems like the right thing to do to me. I would have flagged it over that, but for michaelmrose's reply that indicated that they at least managed to parse your comment. I'm also generally very wary of the phrase "decide for yourself", it's not objectively incorrect, but it comes across as asking people to ignore better informed people's opinions, which is the exact opposite of what you should do when reading comment sections on the internet. I think another commenters point that you're making fairly baseless accusations against people who like the GPL might be correct, but that didn't weigh in to my decision to flag it or not because I honestly didn't (and still don't) understand your comment. If I agreed with them that that is what your comment was doing, I would have been more likely to flag it - because insulting groups of people rarely leads to fruitful discussion. Hopefully that helps...