<story><title>An Update on Hacker News</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/an-update-on-hacker-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rspeer</author><text>&amp;gt; To prevent abuse, moderators review flagged stories and comments and revoke flagging privileges from users who flag inappropriately.&lt;p&gt;This seems like one of the cases where HN&amp;#x27;s moderation is both draconian and completely opaque. I can&amp;#x27;t flag comments, and I have no idea why. I certainly don&amp;#x27;t think of myself as an abusive user.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I accidentally clicked the &amp;quot;flag&amp;quot; link once. If that gets flagging privileges removed, HN should at least consider creating a way to undo an action!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>As other users have pointed out, to flag a comment you have to click on &amp;#x27;link&amp;#x27; to go to the comment&amp;#x27;s item page [1]. I don&amp;#x27;t know why PG designed it this way but have always assumed it was a speed bump to reduce impulsive flagging, since flags are more powerful than downvotes.&lt;p&gt;We never remove flagging privileges because of just one flag. The concept of a mistake is all too familiar over here.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https://hn.algolia.com/?q=author%3Adang+flag+link#!/comment/sort_by_date/0/author%3Adang%20flag%20link&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hn.algolia.com&amp;#x2F;?q=author%3Adang+flag+link#!&amp;#x2F;comment&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>An Update on Hacker News</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/an-update-on-hacker-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rspeer</author><text>&amp;gt; To prevent abuse, moderators review flagged stories and comments and revoke flagging privileges from users who flag inappropriately.&lt;p&gt;This seems like one of the cases where HN&amp;#x27;s moderation is both draconian and completely opaque. I can&amp;#x27;t flag comments, and I have no idea why. I certainly don&amp;#x27;t think of myself as an abusive user.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I accidentally clicked the &amp;quot;flag&amp;quot; link once. If that gets flagging privileges removed, HN should at least consider creating a way to undo an action!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>More than once, I&amp;#x27;ve unintentionally downvoted comments I meant to upvote, upvoted comments I meant to downvote, and&amp;#x2F;or clicked on a button I didn&amp;#x27;t mean to click (that includes clicking on &amp;#x27;reply&amp;#x27; after writing something that doesn&amp;#x27;t really add any value and almost instantly regretting it).&lt;p&gt;So I agree, it would be great to have more&amp;#x2F;better undo options!</text></comment>