People can see it if they enable show-dead in their settings. They can still reply to people and upvote comments, but the submission itself should not be climb

People can see it if they enable show-dead in their settings. They can still reply to people and upvote comments, but the submission itself should not be climbing. If you are seeing it climb after it was flagged that would be a question for Daniel (dang). You could email him and ask.