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Re:Ask HN: Guard against users who misuse flag/report on posts by quickthrower2 on Saturday October 14, 2023 @06:28AM (#37879421)
HN mods don’t have that much capacity. You would need a team of approvers. And it would be a boring job!

Instead just internally sticky note people who flag something that is later vouched or vice versa. Then review these noted people and shadow ban their vouch/flag powers if they are making a lot of off decisions.

I reckon an algo like this would catch a person a day and would be easy to review. This reduces trolls.

(BTW: If your submission is fine and gets flagged your other remedy is to submit again a day later.)

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