On: How Product Hunt really works

[quintin]

Correction: HN mods often flag posts down. Almost on a very regular basis. They do this for the larger good.

[minimaxir → quintin]

No, those are mostly by users. And in the case where an article is falsely flagged to death, the new vouch system corrects that.

[mintplant → minimaxir]

I thought the "vouch" system only applied to dead things. Is that not correct?

[detaro → mintplant]

You can only vouch once something has become flagged, but then it works against the flags. (and if only a few users have flagged a post, it is likely to become unflagged by that)

[minimaxir → mintplant]

Works for both dead and flagged.

[DanBC → quintin]

As far as I know that's not mods, that's regular users.

minimaxir is talking about the small repost-bump that some posts get.