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    That's interesting, and it's kinda like how flagged chat messages work (there's a little blue thingy next to them, although I'm not sure if that's shown to regular users or only to chat moderators). Commented May 15, 2013 at 13:31
  • @Yannis AFAIK it's shown to all users that can see flags in chat. 10k network-wide? You're seing the blue bar. Commented May 15, 2013 at 13:34
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    It is a good idea, but might be abused to provide an alternative to downvoting bad comments, which is probably not a good thing. (Comment downvotes would be great, though!) Commented May 15, 2013 at 14:31
  • @rynah how? I'm saying already flagged comments (this system exists) will just be visibly actionable to moderator-like (high-rep) users. The flagging system won't change under this proposition. You'll still need to flag judiciously and if your flags are declined a lot you'll lose privileges, just like now. Commented May 15, 2013 at 15:06
  • @djechlin: The deletion of kind-of-wrong-but-still-valid answers is actually a problem I've seen before, and given that comment deletion is irreversible and you can't downvote them, I feel like it's going to be abused by people who disagree heavily with a comment and delete it in context since it's not part of a review queue, which is less... "personal". Commented May 15, 2013 at 16:20
  • @rynah okay, I agree that's a risk with this proposal - and all proposals, actually; how to balance encouraging deletions of comments that should be deleted from ones that are merely disagreed with? I see how this could be riskier than the queue though given the impersonality factor. Commented May 15, 2013 at 18:28