Eh,you could write the mods and ask what's up. I don't have it either. I don't know why. I haven't cared enough to bring it up.

You can vouch for comments. You can't vouch threads. You upvotes threads.

I believe you can vouch stories once they are marked [dead]. If they're just [flagged] but not actually [dead] yet then you can't vouch.

Yes, that's right. More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12984398.

From the linked comment:

> You're right that we could have 'vouch' show up even if an article is merely [flagged] rather than [dead].

There's the problem right now that flagging articles can drop them so low on the new articles feed (3rd or 4th page) that they are effectively dead. Some discussion may continue for a while from people who were already participating in discussions or are dropping in via the comments link. But typically this will be a very small number of people. So even if an article is not, strictly speaking, dead, it is effectively zombie-ified.

Allowing a "vouch" on a flagged article which actually works to offset a single flag might be a good compromise.

I think the same is true for comments: they need to be [dead] before you get a vouch button. Additionally, you have to click into the individual comment to see the vouch button.

(Glad to learn I am not on some secret Bad Voucher list. Thanks for commenting.)