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by immibis 153 days ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. If the system did something different from its purpose, they would change it. I'm sure it's also intentional there's no vouch button for posts. This will change once every high quality post is flagged to death.
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> there's no vouch button for posts.

There is. But seems like it’s only for [dead], not [flagged].

I suspect dead usually means shadow ban, at least for comments, and vouch is a way to selectively show through community support a high value comment from an otherwise abusive user. Where flagged is overt, already applies just to that one comment, and vouching in that case wouldn't really make logical sense. Unless we want people to be able to wage flag wars.
Maybe it’s time for a flag strike
Oh the bots got me. Out of nowhere too. This site is fucking rigged