Hacker News Reader

That's probably part of the problem. Anybody can just sit around flagging content with a low karma threshold and much fewer people are allowed to vouch back. It's the exact opposite of the downvote threshold on here which is designed to keep people from just killing off opinions they disagree with.

View on HN

You get vouch and flag permissions at the same karma level.

On this page, I see an option to flag, but not one to vouch. I've never seen an option to vouch.

Ah, the vouch button replaces the flag button when there are enough flags to kill the post (it's then [flagged][dead]), you have to have "showdead" enabled in your preferences to see those of course

Thanks!

Okay, that seems to make it worse then. Because I can see that this post is flagged, but since it's not dead, I cannot help balance out the flagging. Only after it's completely dead can anyone try to resurrect it? Seems... unbalanced. But hey, overall the site works better than most, so okay.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com