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>>palata+(OP)
Just wanna say I can't understand Hacker News' stance on politics:

Someone posts Paul Graham's post talking about "woke" ideology and mods/admins do nothing about it

While this one stays flagged

At least be consistent

>>burger+ce
Just to be clear, there's one main mod (dang) and they don't flag submissions, that honour falls to regular users who've been here a year or three or more (whatever the time | point threshold is).

Most of the users that can [flag] also have the option to [vouch]. If enough vouch the flag is reveresed (as far as I know).

>>defros+cf
You can't vouch for posts, only comments.

>>Philpa+Af
I have vouched for posts .. but it doesn't always appear as an option ...

Addendum1: I haven't compiled a detailed cross referenced list of observations about HN .. but it's got a lot of little subtle quirks from custom coding .. I suspect there's a window for submission vouching that's only open to users with certain other privlege escalations, or perhaps a stochastic element throws that chance to a random few .. eg: I have no option to vouch for this flagged submission, but I have had that option on others.

Addendum2: Jtsummers may well be right. There may also still be other odd little factors <shrug>.