Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
by dang on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:57AM
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We've been toying with doing something like this. The original intent of vouching was to rescue good posts that happen to be [dead] (e.g. because a banned user posted them) which is why we didn't implement it that way at the time.
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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
by foob on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:34PM
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I think that this is a great idea. I imagine that it's very difficult to differentiate between users flagging things that really don't belong on the site and flagging things that they dislike for more personal reasons. Showing a "vouch" link to high-karma users on stories that are being flagged would make it easier to separate the two cases.