You probably already know/have done this but just in case (or if someone else reading along isn't aware): if you click the timestamp "<x> ago" text for a comment it forces the "vouch" button to appear.
I've also vouched as it doesn't seem like a comment deserving to be dead at all. For at least this instant it looks like that was enough vouches to restore the comment.
I don't know the specifics of this, but vouching "against" the hive mind leads to your vouches not doing anything any more. I assume that either there's some kind of threshold after which you're shadowbanned from vouching or perhaps there's a kind of vouch weight and "correctly" vouching (comment is not re-flagged) increases it, while wrongly vouching (comment remains flagged or is re-flagged) decreases your weight.
It wasn't downvoted - rather, the account is banned (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653007) and comments by banned accounts are [dead] by default unless users vouch for them (as described by zamadatix) or mods unkill them (which we do when we see good comments by banned accounts).
Btw, I agree that that was a good comment that deserved vouching! But of course we have to ban accounts because of the worst things they post, not the best.
> TacticalCoder 14 minutes ago [dead] | root | parent | prev | next [–]
>> TFA says it can bump the spec to 768 GB but that it's then more like > $2500 than $2000. At 768 GB that'd be the full, 8 bit, model.
> Seems indeed like a good price compared to $6000 for someone who wants to hack a build.
> I mean: $6 K is doable but I take it take many who'd want to build such a machine for fun would prefer to only fork $2.5K.
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I am not sure why TacticalCoder's comment was downvoted to oblivion. I would have upvoted if the comment wasn't already dead.
You probably already know/have done this but just in case (or if someone else reading along isn't aware): if you click the timestamp "<x> ago" text for a comment it forces the "vouch" button to appear.
I've also vouched as it doesn't seem like a comment deserving to be dead at all. For at least this instant it looks like that was enough vouches to restore the comment.
I don't know the specifics of this, but vouching "against" the hive mind leads to your vouches not doing anything any more. I assume that either there's some kind of threshold after which you're shadowbanned from vouching or perhaps there's a kind of vouch weight and "correctly" vouching (comment is not re-flagged) increases it, while wrongly vouching (comment remains flagged or is re-flagged) decreases your weight.
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It wasn't downvoted - rather, the account is banned (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653007) and comments by banned accounts are [dead] by default unless users vouch for them (as described by zamadatix) or mods unkill them (which we do when we see good comments by banned accounts).
Btw, I agree that that was a good comment that deserved vouching! But of course we have to ban accounts because of the worst things they post, not the best.
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