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strange, i can flag posts but can't vouch at 400+ karma
by lgregg 6y ago
strange, i can flag posts but can't vouch at 400+ karma
- bambax 6y agoMe neither.
- whymauri 6y agoThe vouch option only appears for me on [dead] or [flagged] comments when I access them directly from the poster's profile. I've never gotten the vouch to work on submissions.
- TigeriusKirk 6y agoYep, this post is now showing as flagged and I have no option to vouch for it. Not that I would in this case, but the option is not there for me.
- DanBC 6y agoUsers can flag submissions. There isn't a vouch option for submissions, but upvoting acts a bit like a vouch. Users can flag and vouch comments. If you think a story or comment is unfairly flag-killed you can email the mods I guess. This is particularly useful when something is being talked about on HN and the author / creator makes an account to join in that conversation. They'll sometimes find their account is rate-limited because it's a new account.
- TigeriusKirk 6y agoThanks, that kind of makes sense.
- akerl_ 6y agoI definitely have a “vouch” option for submissions. I think it’s a newer addition than vouching comments.
- tptacek 6y agoYou can't vouch for something until it's dead. That's what vouching does: it unkills it. If you want to counteract flags, upvote.
- falcolas 6y agoFlags are worth more than upvotes - that's one of the imbalancing forces between the two. And something can be flagged off the front page (or two/three) - effectively halting any natural upvotes - without killing it.
- tptacek 6y agoThat's true. Flags aren't downvotes. They're meant exclusively for stories that don't belong on the front page of HN, at all. Using them as a simple downvote is an abuse, and doing that routinely can get your flag power quietly revoked. Flagging helps the site much more than it hurts it, but, like everything else, it's deeply imperfect; I've had banal submissions flagged myself. The thing to do when that happens is to mail hn@yc and ask for the flags to be lifted.