I vouched for quite a number of comments yesterday that I felt were constructive and respectful, but were nonetheless flagged. I didn't keep track of the comments and don't know if they got flagged again; I don't know if you can see what I "vouched" for in some sort of admin UI? From what I recall this wasn't isolated to one particular viewpoint or "side" by the way, there are, ehm, strong emotions all around.
Yes, we can track vouches in admin software. I took a quick look. Most of the comments you vouched for seem not to have ended up in a flagged state; a few did. I'd probably have left a few more of them [flagged], but I didn't see anything too egregious, other than one comment were a user pointedly included someone's personal details.
> other than one comment were a user pointedly included someone's personal details
I must've missed that, sorry. I was a tad annoyed and maybe I got a bit carried away. At any rate, at least some people, IMHO, misused the [flag] feature. I've seen it on a few other occasions too (and happened to a story from my blog, which was entirely unflagworthy but got flagged due to sour grapes) which is why I have showdead on in the first place.
