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Maybe HN is fatigued with discussions of the Google memo, I don't think there has been enough. I'm vouching for the new contributor to Vox, hoping she can cont

Maybe HN is fatigued with discussions of the Google memo, I don't think there has been enough. I'm vouching for the new contributor to Vox, hoping she can continue talking about issues she's seen.

Rapzid 9y ago
I've vouched as well. We have tools to handle inappropriate comments threads without needing to avoid the topic wholesale.
- kps 9y ago
  Vouching still exists? I suppose I got it taken away for using it ‘wrong’.
  - Mz 9y ago
    Eh,you could write the mods and ask what's up. I don't have it either. I don't know why. I haven't cared enough to bring it up.
  - DanBC 9y ago
    You can vouch for comments. You can't vouch threads. You upvotes threads.
    - acheron 9y ago
      I believe you can vouch stories once they are marked [dead]. If they're just [flagged] but not actually [dead] yet then you can't vouch.
      - sctb 9y ago
        Yes, that's right. More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12984398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12984398.
        curtis 9y ago
        From the linked comment: > You're right that we could have 'vouch' show up even if an article is merely [flagged] rather than [dead]. There's the problem right now that flagging articles can drop them so low on the new articles feed (3rd or 4th page) that they are effectively dead. Some discussion may continue for a while from people who were already participating in discussions or are dropping in via the comments link. But typically this will be a very small number of people. So even if an article is not, strictly speaking, dead, it is effectively zombie-ified. Allowing a "vouch" on a flagged article which actually works to offset a single flag might be a good compromise.
      - Mz 9y ago
        I think the same is true for comments: they need to be [dead] before you get a vouch button. Additionally, you have to click into the individual comment to see the vouch button. (Glad to learn I am not on some secret Bad Voucher list. Thanks for commenting.)
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Maybe HN is fatigued with discussions of the Google memo, I don't think there has been enough. I'm vouching for the new contributor to Vox, hoping she can continue talking about issues she's seen.

Rapzid 9y ago

I've vouched as well. We have tools to handle inappropriate comments threads without needing to avoid the topic wholesale.

kps 9y ago
Vouching still exists? I suppose I got it taken away for using it ‘wrong’.
- Mz 9y ago
  Eh,you could write the mods and ask what's up. I don't have it either. I don't know why. I haven't cared enough to bring it up.
- DanBC 9y ago
  You can vouch for comments. You can't vouch threads. You upvotes threads.
  - acheron 9y ago
    I believe you can vouch stories once they are marked [dead]. If they're just [flagged] but not actually [dead] yet then you can't vouch.
    - sctb 9y ago
      Yes, that's right. More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12984398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12984398.
      - curtis 9y ago
        From the linked comment: > You're right that we could have 'vouch' show up even if an article is merely [flagged] rather than [dead]. There's the problem right now that flagging articles can drop them so low on the new articles feed (3rd or 4th page) that they are effectively dead. Some discussion may continue for a while from people who were already participating in discussions or are dropping in via the comments link. But typically this will be a very small number of people. So even if an article is not, strictly speaking, dead, it is effectively zombie-ified. Allowing a "vouch" on a flagged article which actually works to offset a single flag might be a good compromise.
    - Mz 9y ago
      I think the same is true for comments: they need to be [dead] before you get a vouch button. Additionally, you have to click into the individual comment to see the vouch button. (Glad to learn I am not on some secret Bad Voucher list. Thanks for commenting.)
      - deleted 9y ago
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