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Re:Former Tesla engineer sues for defamation by shuntress on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:32PM (#25363307)
"most of the time dang unflags them" is that mechanism.

If I found a reliable way to automate the recognition of bad-faith user interactions I would sell it to google and retire before bringing it to HN.

edit: Also, apparently, users can "vouch" for posts which presumably is just the inverse of flagging a post.

Re:Former Tesla engineer sues for defamation by jtbayly on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:05PM (#25363922)
You can vouch for a comment, but not a post. (Except by emailing dang.)
Re:Former Tesla engineer sues for defamation by pbreit on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:13PM (#25367548)
Well, for example, deducting karma (or whatever) from people who flag stuff that dang unflags.