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You can see which comments get downvoted, read them and thus learn others preferences.

How do you downvote ?

I only have an up arrow.

You need 500 karma to do it

Do you know how the flag-function works? Sometimes I'm able to flag comments, other times the button isn't present.

It looks like I can only flag comments once I tap reply?

You apparently also need 31 karma to do so https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437

I'm just going by the posts I've seen dead and grayed out

Usually it's flame wars and nonsensical rants where the commenter appears to be off their medication

Meanwhile people are happy to have all sorts of conversations that will get you canceled elsewhere about gender, race, and vaccines (so long as the conversations are analytical anyway)