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Tell HN: You can see your vouched and flagged items
It is possible to see items you vouched for or flagged by editing and visiting these links:
https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched?id=your_username
https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged?id=your_username
It might be useful to catch flagging-by-fat-fingers. Also to take a look at how well items you vouch for do afterwards.
I figured the vouched link, then dang told me about the flagged one. Couldn't find any references to these on HN or "hidden features" guides, but it's been a while since I last looked.
Do you know of any other hidden links like these?
- version_five 5y agoThanks! I read NH on my phone and I often press one of the wrong buttons by accident. The worst is "hide" - I end up swearing I saw something and then I can't find it, and it never occurs to me to check my hidden list.
- vmception 5y agoYeah the click area on everything is too small
- dylan604 5y agoI don't think you need to qualify it as click areas. Everything in the HN UI is too small. Unless your Antman or the Tick. For those 2 users, it might be okay.
- addaon 5y agoI read HN about 50/50 on desktop vs mobile, and deliberately stay logged out on mobile so that I don't accidentally vote up/down. I tend to not hit hide just because I scroll on the left side of the screen, but staying logged out doesn't protect against that.
- zozbot234 5y agoJust fixed a few random misclicks I had no idea about, this was quite useful. These should really be linked on the user's own profile page.
- cscpoly03 5y agoAlso https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=your_username https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=your_username and https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=your_username https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=your_username
- gitgud 5y agoWhat is vouching? Is that a high-reputation-only feature?
- detaro 5y agowhen something is flag-killed (or otherwise [dead], e.g. due to the poster being banned), a link appears to "vouch" for it, which counteracts the flags.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoVouching is for saying "this dead comment doesn't suck and deserves to be live " If you don't have show dead on you won't see those comments.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoIt must be used with care. Excessive vouching for undeserving comments results in a loss of the privilege.
- muzani 5y agoThere's not a lot of underserved comments getting killed. Flamebait often stays alive. It often applies to new accounts posting something that looks spammy. I've done two vouches, one for a new account that formatted their posts neatly, another for a throwaway account that talked about wanting to improve their sex life in a thread about self improvement.
- pseudalopex 5y agoHow is undeserving defined?
- krapp 5y agoHowever the mods choose to define it.
- Tomte 5y ago
- Glyptodon 5y agoThanks, looks like I've definitely fat fingered flag a fair bit over time.
- ddingus 5y agoI have way more flagged than I expected. Sorry! Apparently I click it in error more than I realized. Gonna go fix it. Too late, I know, but then I start fresh and can be aware.
- savrajsingh 5y agosame here, I don't think I've ever flagged anything on purpose.
- ddingus 5y agoI have, but literally two items. I was first, or super early enough to have an opportunity to flag. Usually, it is flagged before I show up. A simple, "Flag for realz, no?" Might be a net win. But, it would also break the lean and mean, oh so sweet UX here too.
- philip1209 5y agoYeah, the tap targets on mobile are tiny
- newscracker 5y ago> It might be useful to catch flagging-by-fat-fingers. Also to take a look at how well items you vouch for do afterwards. One area where HN has done poorly for years is accessibility, both on desktop (poor) and mobile (very poor). Most of the click and tap targets are quite small, and are spaced quite close to each other. Most of the fonts are quite small. Unintentionally downvoting something when intending to upvote it (or vice versa), unintentional flagging of a post, etc., happen more often. Isn’t there a web designer out there who can create a better (yet simple) CSS for HN to use and donate it? Isn’t YC capable of spending some pocket change on improving accessibility on one of its important sites? How about a design competition (with constraints) with the top five getting some reward and letting the users choose (in their profiles) which of these winning stylesheets they’d like to use? Or just allow a URL for stylesheet in the user profile so anyone has the freedom to customize it however they like?
- smt88 5y agoThere are a ton of alternate HN UIs for web, mobile, and terminal. I don't use any but I've seen them posted about many times.
- dylan604 5y agoAt the risk of beating a dead horse to death (huh?), this is pretty abysmal. I understand it is, it was, it always will be, but c'mon. I can totally see hesitancy to change it, as whatever change will not make 100% of users happy and law of averages suggest a > 0% of users will be unhappy. Sometimes, devil you know....
- benrbray 5y agoHN is one of the best designed websites I use daily. The information density is unmatched on the "modern" web.
- alksjdalkj 5y agoSo are you refuting the assertion that HN does a poor job with accessibility? Or just saying that you don't care because it works well for you?
- osrec 5y agoInteresting - just looked at the things I've upvoted and they're mostly fat fingered items... If more people report the same thing, it might be worth improving the UI a little.
- dqpb 5y agoWoah, I have a huge number of flagged articles that I don’t even remember seeing. My guess is that I must have flagged these while scrolling (on my phone). When scrolling, my thumb lands right on “flag | hide”. @dang, maybe the flag links should only be on the discussion page and not on the list view.
- toomuchtodo 5y ago+1 for moving flag to discussion pages. I had pages of posts flagged I never knew I flagged.
- sp332 5y agoThere is a leaderboard. https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders It does not include mods though.
- newbie789 5y agoIs there one for hidden posts? I have accidentally clicked “Hide” on mobile SO MANY times.
- lumpa 5y agoYep, it's https://news.ycombinator.com/hidden https://news.ycombinator.com/hidden and it shows in your profile.
- richardw 5y agoI’m careful. I often catch myself and fix downs I don’t intend. Yet I found a bunch of flags, and only two real ones. Check for yourself, you might be surprised.
- opportune 5y agoWow I seem to fat finger the flag button a lot. Surprised my flagging privileges have not been revoked (or maybe they silently have). Maybe it makes sense for HN to lower the weight of flags based on the user-agent, since I assume all of these are from me using mobile
- randlet 5y agoSame. I've never intentionally flagged a story I don't think but had a dozen or so that I guess I fat fingered
- rebuilder 5y agoI was surprised, too! Then I went back to the front page and noticed the “flag” link is usually right around where my thumb goes when scrolling the page on mobile.
- fblp 5y agoalso same, looks like I've accidentally flagged dozens of posts :(
- robjan 5y agoEventually you get shadowbanned from flagging. I also fat finger and my flags aren't counted anymore.
- superasn 5y agoYeah I couldn't believe my flagged profile. I really think a yes/no double confirm could prevent a lot of these.. also since it's such a rarely used feature I don't think anyone would mind confirming it.
- shaunxcode 5y agoSame! Almost NONE of them are ones I intentionally flagged!
- searchableguy 5y agoSame, I found many false flags.
- tonymet 5y agohow can i see my comments and posts that have been flagged ? i bet those are the best submissions
- plibither8 5y agoI had created a list of endpoints on Hacker News to help with my extension Refined Hacker News (https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/master/src/libs/paths.js https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/maste...). Thanks for telling me about this! Will add these paths too :)
- berkut 5y agoI seem to remember dang saying that flagged items were anonymous? Maybe I'm mis-remembering, as clearly they can't be if they're stored somewhere on a per-user basis...
- muzani 5y agoThey're probably anonymous in the same way downvotes are. The relation is stored on the system, but users can't see it. Otherwise if it was just a counter, you could flag something multiple times.
- renewiltord 5y agoHaha, I looked through the list and there's some comments I vouched for ages ago that got flagged into oblivion nonetheless. One which said that it was pretty much the old and fat who should stay home and another which said that the AZ vaccine was safe and delaying it when vax supplies were not abundant was tantamount to killing people. HN's reaction was to upvote highly people who claimed AZ vax was shitty. This is a fun test of seeing if I was right about the evidence. I can now match against truth and see if these guys were right. If they were wrong, then I'm backing misinformation. If they were right, I'm a hero for science. Good for them taking bold stances. Do not go gently into the night, my brave friends! Rage against the extinguishing of your light! :D
- legerdemain 5y agoWow, I've flagged way more posts unintentionally than I would have guessed.
- umvi 5y agoIt's actually pretty hard to unintentionally flag a comment because it takes two separate clicks. Flagging articles unintentionally is easier.
- mettamage 5y agoHmm, it seems I unintentionally flag as well (about 5 posts in total). I also remember to have intentionally flagged a few posts, but I don’t recognize them. I don’t understand this view fully.
- fartcannon 5y agoI try vouch for people who get hammered by fanboys and shills in submarine advertisement threads because that's something (I believe) that happens to me a lot and I hope they notice!
- Blahah 5y agoWhat does submarine mean in this context?
- fartcannon 5y agoSneaky and under the radar. An advertorial. "a newspaper or magazine advertisement giving information about a product in the style of an editorial or objective journalistic article."
- crackercrews 5y agoIn case anyone else was wondering, these are only visible to you.
- muzani 5y agoI've caught myself accidentally flagging something when I intended to favorite it. This proves that I actually do that quite often.
- oars 5y agoDoes HN support emojis
- connordoner 5y agoNope!
- toomuchtodo 5y agoIt does in your profile.
- connordoner 5y agoDoesn’t here on Google Chrome on the latest version of macOS... It just strips them and leaves white space.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoTragically, the feature has apparently been patched.
- krapp 5y agoYou've got to be careful around here, the fun police are always watching...
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- Beldin 5y agoNote: id is case sensitive.
- mgbmtl 5y agoI stay logged-out on mobile because, while I appreciate the compact format, it's too easy to accidentally vote/flag a post.
- janandonly 5y agoVery useful indeed. I found 8 articles which I flagged by mistake... I read this option to mean a totally different thing: That it showed which of my own posts were flagged by others, but that is not the case.
- gumby 5y agoThanks, it looks like I accidentally flagged a bunch of articles in 2020, plus one legit case. Weird!
- jakub_g 5y agoI documented a bunch of hidden links here: https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/803ad2c074ad1fbe2af5 https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/803ad2c074ad1fbe2af5 Re: "vouching", what is this? Is it to un-dead something? I have also a question about flagging: What's the etiquette for this? I sometimes use it as "I want dang to read the comment, and take the action that it suggests to take" (like: change the title etc.), rather than: "there is something wrong with this post".
- detaro 5y ago> "I want dang to read the comment, and take the action that it suggests to take" That's why dangs email address is in the footer.
- vulcan01 5y ago> Re: "vouching", what is this? Is it to un-dead something? If you have "showdead" on (check your settings) you can vouch a comment that has been flagged to death.
- helsinkiandrew 5y agoWhat! I've flagged about one article a month accidentally - should this feature have an "are you sure"? I know I occasionally downvote posts rather than minimize but usually notice that.
- consumer451 5y agoWow, I found over a two dozen flagged comments and I have never purposely flagged a comment. Interesting! Thanks for posting this. I am cleaning up my giant mess. The data seems to indicate that there is something lacking in the UI, but I'm still not sure exactly what. What was I trying to tap when I hit flag? I am nearly 50/50 mobile/desktop, hmmm. What a terrible SNR I've been giving dang et al. Sorry! Edit: yeah, it’s likely just scrolling on mobile and accidentally tapping Flag. What’s a bit odd is that my Hidden list is empty. Why wasn’t I accidentally tapping that sometimes?
- ryandrake 5y agoThe name itself could be part of it: "Flag" could mean anything. In my E-mail, I "flag" things that I want to read again and take action on. Back when I was an HN newbie, I thought that's what flags here were for. There is nothing in the name "flag" that indicates it should be used to mark naughty posts.
- consumer451 5y agoIn my case, I was aware of HN downvoting and flagging prior to having those rights, so I was not misusing them for sure.
- nottorp 5y agoApparently I flagged a story in 2017. Pretty sure not intentional. Still, please don't turn HN into one of those mobile friendly sites with information density approaching zero.
- consumer451 5y ago> Still, please don't turn HN into one of those mobile friendly sites with information density approaching zero. I would also be extremely conservative with any changes to this website. I love that it loads very quickly over 2G data and that my blockers don’t block anything on it. I also do appreciate the consistency of the design over the years. I grok the glacial pace of progress on HN. I’d still be curious to know exactly why this wasn’t taken care of in the UI. Seems so noisy for any mods. Does it just not matter? Did they just stop paying attention to mobile flags internally? But then it’s kinda messy to leave them visible for me. Hmmm.
- donclark 5y agoIs there a way to see the (other users) comments I upvoted?
- Tijdreiziger 5y agoClick your username in the top right > upvoted comments. There's also a link to your upvoted submissions in the same place.