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amyjess, if you read this, your comment is showing as dead, don't know why, sometimes the moderation on HN catches out people that don't deserve it. Thanks for
by ZenoArrow 11y ago
amyjess, if you read this, your comment is showing as dead, don't know why, sometimes the moderation on HN catches out people that don't deserve it. Thanks for passing on the stories.
- dang 11y agoThere's a much better solution than posting off-topic comments like this: click on the comment's timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch'. This indicates that the comment shouldn't be dead. When enough users vouch for a comment, the software restores it. (There's a small karma threshold, currently 30, before a user sees 'vouch' links.) In addition, moderators review the vouched-for comments and in many cases have unbanned accounts that didn't need to stay banned. amyjess's comment was killed by a spam filter. Users vouched for it, so it was unkilled by the time we saw it.
- ZenoArrow 11y agoThank you for letting me know about the timestamp trick dang, that's useful. Are there plans to make the vouch link available for dead comments without needing to click on the timestamp? I believe it'd help.
- dang 11y agoVouching works the way flagging works. Flagging comments has always required an extra click, presumably as a high-pass filter to cut down on impulsive flagging. That design seems to have worked well, so we probably won't change it. It does leave a discovery problem though.