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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by godshatter on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:16AM (#27984801)
Just for the record, the reply to this comment by bopbeepboop that was downvoted to "dead" status is a good example of the type of downvoting I disagree with.

I also understand that this isn't my site, and that I have no control over the behavior of others on this site. I'm just putting that out there.

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by gus_massa on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @12:31PM (#27985736)
About bopbeepboop: The comment was not flagged, the account is banned. Look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26735029 near the end of the tread, the post by dang

A good trick is to go to the comment history, and search until you find the last streak of not dead comments. It's fine to vouch the [dead] comments (if they are fine), and enough vouch unkill the comment. In the case of bopbeepboop it looks like many of the comments were vouched.

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by godshatter on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @12:33PM (#27985763)
OK, I guess I was working under the assumption that the comment was dead because it was downvoted enough times. My bad.
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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by jjav on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:10PM (#27986211)
> It's fine to vouch the [dead] comments (if they are fine)

How does one do that? Haven't seen any option to do that.

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by gus_massa on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:22PM (#27986375)
Click on the time/age of the comment (currently "3 hours ago") and you will get a direct link to the comment with more options, like "vouch" and "flag".
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