Comment by kunley
16 hours ago
While I can understand (while disagreeing) why my comment was downvoted, it is beyond my comprehension why it was in addition _flagged_. I expressed my view on usefulness of one's effort and I barely scratched the surface. Nothing in my comment was even remotely disrespectful to the author; I am in fact sympathetic to the guy and I think I was in his shoes many times. I can't think of any other violation of anything that led someone to flag. If someone was feeling strange or dubious about my comment, a civilised way is to ask "what did you mean", wait for reply and then judge.
This site is a democratic place; thus I am asking the flagger to tell what in his mind was the alleged reason for flagging.
I vouched for your comment. It didn't break the guidelines, and therefore shouldn't have been flagged. In the future, you can always email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com if you were flagged and think you shouldn't have been (or other mod-y stuff). (I am not a mod)
Take a look at the 'new' tab and you'll see a lot of flags that shouldn't be flags. Guessing people are using it as a stronger downvote.