lproven 2 days ago

More weird harmful moderation!

This is a great global/general response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44246578

Why is it marked dead? @dang, are you able to fix that?

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tomhow 2 days ago

You could just vouch these comments and they'd be visible right away. Much faster than typing these accusatory messages :)

Both of them were auto-killed due to very normal system mechanisms that have been in place for years. But the whole reason we have the vouch system is so that when people see a killed comment that should be visible, they can click the link and it should appear immediately.

Failing that you could email us. This is much more reliable than an @mention, which isn't an official or reliable way to contact us (the only reason I saw your comment was that somebody else emailed us about it).

lproven 1 day ago

> You could just vouch these comments

I spent some time Googling this. Apparently some people can see a "vouch" button somewhere. I can't.

> Failing that you could email us.

Tried that to ask why my submissions were being tagged dead. Twice. No reply.