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Can you tell me what the vouching system is? Is that another word for giving upvotes to comments?

• DanBC 9y ago
  In your options there's one called "showdead". That allows you to see any comments that have been killed by the HN software or by user flags. If you then click the timestamp of a dead comment you'll see a [vouch] link. If enough people click that it'll change the post from dead to live. Mods get to see vouches, and people who get enough vouches I think get converted from banned to unbanned. I think there's a karma threshold four vouching, but I don't know what that is.