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What is vouching? Is that a high-reputation-only feature?
by gitgud 5y ago
What 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 agoTwo vouches, in my case.
- Noumenon72 5y ago10 of the 13 posts I have vouched for are no longer dead. I wonder if I singlehandedly resurrected those or many people vouched?
- perihelions 5y agoI think just one [vouch] is sufficient to resurrect a comment, but subsequent [flag]s can send it back to a [flagged] (or [dead]) state.