It is possible to see items you vouched for or flagged by editing and visiting these links:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched?id=your_username<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged?id=your_username<p>It might be useful to catch flagging-by-fat-fingers. Also to take a look at how well items you vouch for do afterwards.<p>I figured the vouched link, then dang told me about the flagged one. Couldn't find any references to these on HN or "hidden features" guides, but it's been a while since I last looked.<p>Do you know of any other hidden links like these?
> It might be useful to catch flagging-by-fat-fingers. Also to take a look at how well items you vouch for do afterwards.<p>One area where HN has done poorly for years is accessibility, both on desktop (poor) and mobile (very poor). Most of the click and tap targets are quite small, and are spaced quite close to each other. Most of the fonts are quite small.<p>Unintentionally downvoting something when intending to upvote it (or vice versa), unintentional flagging of a post, etc., happen more often.<p>Isn’t there a web designer out there who can create a better (yet simple) CSS for HN to use and donate it? Isn’t YC capable of spending some pocket change on improving accessibility on one of its important sites? How about a design competition (with constraints) with the top five getting some reward and letting the users choose (in their profiles) which of these winning stylesheets they’d like to use? Or just allow a URL for stylesheet in the user profile so anyone has the freedom to customize it however they like?
Wow I seem to fat finger the flag button a lot. Surprised my flagging privileges have not been revoked (or maybe they silently have). Maybe it makes sense for HN to lower the weight of flags based on the user-agent, since I assume all of these are from me using mobile
I have way more flagged than I expected.<p>Sorry! Apparently I click it in error more than I realized.<p>Gonna go fix it. Too late, I know, but then I start fresh and can be aware.
I had created a list of endpoints on Hacker News to help with my extension Refined Hacker News (<a href="https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/master/src/libs/paths.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/maste...</a>). Thanks for telling me about this! Will add these paths too :)
Also <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=your_username" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=your_username</a> and <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=your_username" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=your_username</a>
Thanks! I read NH on my phone and I often press one of the wrong buttons by accident. The worst is "hide" - I end up swearing I saw something and then I can't find it, and it never occurs to me to check my hidden list.
Wow, I found over a two dozen flagged comments and I have never purposely flagged a comment.<p>Interesting! Thanks for posting this. I am cleaning up my giant mess. The data seems to indicate that there is something lacking in the UI, but I'm still not sure exactly what. What was I trying to tap when I hit flag? I am nearly 50/50 mobile/desktop, hmmm.<p>What a terrible SNR I've been giving dang et al. Sorry!<p>Edit: yeah, it’s likely just scrolling on mobile and accidentally tapping Flag. What’s a bit odd is that my Hidden list is empty. Why wasn’t I accidentally tapping that sometimes?
I documented a bunch of hidden links here:
<a href="https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/803ad2c074ad1fbe2af5" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/803ad2c074ad1fbe2af5</a><p>Re: "vouching", what is this? Is it to un-dead something?<p>I have also a question about flagging: What's the etiquette for this?
I sometimes use it as "I want dang to read the comment, and take the action that it suggests to take" (like: change the title etc.), rather than: "there is something wrong with this post".
There is a leaderboard. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders</a> It does not include mods though.
I try vouch for people who get hammered by fanboys and shills in submarine advertisement threads because that's something (I believe) that happens to me a lot and I hope they notice!
What! I've flagged about one article a month accidentally - should this feature have an "are you sure"?<p>I know I occasionally downvote posts rather than minimize but usually notice that.
Hmm, it seems I unintentionally flag as well (about 5 posts in total).<p>I also remember to have intentionally flagged a few posts, but I don’t recognize them.<p>I don’t understand this view fully.
I’m careful. I often catch myself and fix downs I don’t intend. Yet I found a bunch of flags, and only two real ones.<p>Check for yourself, you might be surprised.
Very useful indeed. I found 8 articles which I flagged by mistake...<p>I read this option to mean a totally different thing: That it showed which of my own posts were flagged by others, but that is not the case.
Interesting - just looked at the things I've upvoted and they're mostly fat fingered items...<p>If more people report the same thing, it might be worth improving the UI a little.
I seem to remember dang saying that flagged items were anonymous?<p>Maybe I'm mis-remembering, as clearly they can't be if they're stored somewhere on a per-user basis...
Woah, I have a huge number of flagged articles that I don’t even remember seeing.<p>My guess is that I must have flagged these while scrolling (on my phone). When scrolling, my thumb lands right on “flag | hide”.<p>@dang, maybe the flag links should only be on the discussion page and not on the list view.
Haha, I looked through the list and there's some comments I vouched for ages ago that got flagged into oblivion nonetheless. One which said that it was pretty much the old and fat who should stay home and another which said that the AZ vaccine was safe and delaying it when vax supplies were not abundant was tantamount to killing people.<p>HN's reaction was to upvote highly people who claimed AZ vax was shitty. This is a fun test of seeing if I was right about the evidence. I can now match against truth and see if these guys were right. If they were wrong, then I'm backing misinformation. If they were right, I'm a hero for science.<p>Good for them taking bold stances.<p>Do not go gently into the night, my brave friends! Rage against the extinguishing of your light! :D