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There is, but... 1. It requires flagging first. And that immediately kills posts ability to naturally grow. They're now invisible, so getting karma to get visi

There is, but... 1. It requires flagging first. And that immediately kills posts ability to naturally grow. They're now invisible, so getting karma to get visibility is way harder. Even if they're unflagged, they're inherently disadvantaged and the original flagger still gets their way. 2. It's not accounted for in deduplication. So if a post is unflagged and it loses all momentum, nobody can repost it or it gets flagged for duplication! 3. Only some people can vouch, and they usually don't even know it exists. 4. And even if you can vouch, you need to go looking for flagged posts to find the post to vouch for. Maybe some people should lose their flagging privileges when they're clearly abusing it? But I have a sneaking suspicion that won't happen.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago
Most of what you said is correct but, in this case, the post cannot be vouched anymore. Only [dead] posts can be vouched and this was (presumably) vouched enough when it became [flagged][dead] to have those tags removed until it was flagged more to be [flagged] again. Because it's not also [dead], it cannot be vouched anymore. I've seen that pattern progress a couple of times and it lines up with the posts I am actually able to vouch. Rarely, there are comments that are [flagged] but not [dead], which similarly cannot be vouched.