I wish flagging didn&#x27;t affect ranking so much. It is still possibly to send a submission from the top spots on the second page with flags, even if it has active discussion and never gets the number of flags necessary to kill it.<p>Flagging IMHO should be for &quot;enough people have agreed to kill this&quot; and not to punish controversial topics, especially since it can&#x27;t be directly counteracted (vouch only works on killed submissions, not on those that are only penalized)