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How can we instead defend the legitimacy of a submission?
by mdp2021 3y ago
How can we instead defend the legitimacy of a submission?
- mauvia 3y agoUsers with high karma get access to a "vouch" button.
- mdp2021 3y agoYou had me find an old post of Sam Altman as I searched information about "vouch": https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/two-hn-announcements/ https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/two-hn-announcements/
- mdp2021 3y agoOk, I notice the '[vouch]' button now. Also, I found info about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html I must have been confused as I thought you should vouch against "flagged", not to revert "dead".
- tptacek 3y agoFor comments, not for posts.
- mdp2021 3y agoIt is also for submissions, T. It becomes apparent when you enable the "showdead" option.
- tptacek 3y agoIf you think something valuable has been improperly flagged, you can mail hn@yc. What you shouldn't do is complain on the thread that it's been improperly flagged, because the meta argument you'll start by doing that will just make the story drop faster. Front page real estate is scarce, and the site is rigged to find every reason to push things off it to make way for the next valuable story.
- dredmorbius 3y agoMore specifically, HN relies on a "flamewar detector", which signals overheated conversations where there are > 40 comments and the ratio of comments to upvotes is > 1. Long digressions tend to push stories toward that threshold.