Comment by dredmorbius

How effective are vouches in this regard?

I'll do that reasonably frequently on both posts and comments, though I'm not sure how effective that is.

One sec, let's look at the endpoint ... First page (30 entries) for each shows, at this writing:

- 13 dead of 30 vouched, submissions.

- 26 dead of 30 vouched, comments.

The endpoints for the uninitiated:

  Posts:  https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched?id=YOUR_USERNAME_HERE
  Comments:  https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched?id=YOUR_USERNAME_HERE&kind=comment

I'll also admit that at times that's a protest vote against mod interactions as well.

(The URLs are only visible to the owner of the UID, and I presume, moderators as well.)