Ask HN: How does vouch work on HN?

Edit: Ignore me, turns out there's answers to things in FAQs if you take half a second to look! In summary: There's a [deleted] flag for when a user deletes their own messages, not [dead]. Different things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#dead

----

When it first came out I had a vouch option on flagged-deleted comments which allowed me to un-flag and resurrect the comment. Decent idea, people are using it for a megadownvote.

Recently though I've noticed it went missing, I figured I'd used it too much or in a way someone under the hood didn't like

Even more recently I've noticed I can vouch-res dead comments -- as in not flagged, the user deleted the comment. Unvouching leaves the comment in an un-[dead] state. For what it's worth I didn't do this on purpose, just mis-tapped the tiny text on mobile.

I also noted that by vouching a comment that is both flagged and dead it removes the flagged state, if you then unvouch, it leaves it just dead and loses the flagged tag

Is it working properly? My hunch is that it's been attached to `if ([dead])` instead of `if ([dead] && [flagged])` somewhere, but I have no real idea.

Do I just not understand it?