The one big problem, though, is that China does not believe in freedom
I feel it is not that china doesn’t believe in freedom...it is just that they don’t practice freedom for the time being...but their government always promises future freedom to their people — although that promise may never become true...but the good thing about promising without a specific time is that the promise can always appear to be credible even when one is pushing the day of its realization to the infinity...
I think one of the major benefits is, when china’s currency is accepted by other countries, that means the products (or service) made in china are accepted by other countries. When chinese products are accepted by other countries, those countries are willing to use their own products to trade with those chinese products...
I am not talking about specific products, but those manufacturing in macro sense...
There is no use to hold a certain currency when you are not able to use it for the time being or at some point of time in the future...and the more you hold a certain currency, the longer you are expecting it is useable or the more you expect it to increase its value.
it is all about different labels...and different labels have different visibility, in terms of effort to get to that information...so I guess by narrowing unflagging privilege to a very small group of users, the mod hopes to make it significantly more difficult for people to advocate a certain post here through purposeful manipulation...thus perhaps “unflagging” capability, as one of the last lines of defense, is only given to a very small group of ultimately verified users, through manual assignment or some thrshold based on percentage rather than an absolute karma value...
but for some reason that I am not quite sure, I do not have this "vouch" nor "flag" option for any of the posts that I have the read access...seems the discussion system here works in a way that involves more parameters than "karma" alone...
Perhaps the question could be rephrased as, "how to make any comment posted by an account created less than 5 hours ago visible by any other accounts?"
It looks like the system does not allow a new account to initiate a discussion thread; so I have to ask with an account with a certain accumulation of karma in order to solicit that information.
Obviously not all new accounts are dead-by-default, because we can see comments from new users. So either you triggered some obscure-by-design antispam measure, designed to be intentionally hard to reverse engineer, or a moderator manually banned the user.
They probably would give better visibilities to those new accounts created from certain well-known IP address ranges...
And their visibility mechanism seems to be a bit involved...as for now, each of my three different HN accounts has a different view scope for posts in a same thread...
Seems these days it is much more difficult for a new account of vague origin to participate in a discussion here than it was a few years ago...
https://patents.google.com/patent/CN111203499A/en