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RankingMember · 2019-08-09 14:20:15

You can, but HN hides it (presumably to prevent abuse). Go to the individual item ID (click the time of the comment) and there's a "flag" hyperlink: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20654314

tomjakubowski | karma 7365 | avg karma 3.0 · | 2016-05-22 22:36:44+00:00

You can, you just have to click on the timestamp to visit the comment's item page first, something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750351

sctb | karma 8073 | avg karma 1.38 · | 2017-12-03 20:46:55+00:00

If you go to a comment's page by clicking on the timestamp (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15837946) you should see a “flag” link.

dang | karma 18142 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2023-05-12 19:18:50

You can flag comments. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag.

garbagetime | karma 570 | avg karma 1.52 · | 2023-01-06 00:44:03

Sure.

Here's a recent comment from the user dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271566

And here's his page, where the comment can't be seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

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And here's another comment, also from dang, where he talked about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264605

> this how HN's software works these days. We didn't do anything specific to the thread; it's just that users flagged the root comment.

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soundsop | karma 14755 | avg karma 11.38 · | 2008-07-03 06:58:34+00:00

Comment posts do have the flag, but only if you look at the comment on its own page, e.g., your comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=234897

joshu | karma 14055 | avg karma 3.32 · | 2009-07-29 03:43:35

Even if they had comments links you couldn't flag them.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729032

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8ren | karma 588 | avg karma 4.11 · | 2010-10-31 08:34:33+00:00

Already implemented, but "hidden": you must be on the link to that comment to see the flag link - eg. to see it on pg's GP comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852736

DrJokepu | karma 6672 | avg karma 3.91 · | 2013-07-23 12:16:58+00:00

There is a way indeed. Just click on the "link" link within the comment's header. On the standalone comment page there will be a "flag" option within the comment header. There may be a karma limit or something though; I'm not sure about that.

mtmail | karma 10094 | avg karma 1.54 · | 2021-08-02 16:28:49

You can add that to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037366 Note format of the first line the comments have there.

cpach | karma 7344 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2011-04-04 12:51:08

Try the comment's permalink (eg. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407227).

mindcrime | karma 37388 | avg karma 2.98 · | 2022-02-15 13:06:34

Not by default, but you could cobble together something yourself pretty easily. You can see a given user's comments using something like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=joering2

There's also an older thread that mentions somebody implementing something like this using the hnrss service, but I'm not sure if that's even still up or not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058236

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dshoemaker | karma 21 | avg karma 1.4 · | 2021-10-29 17:06:34

You actually can favorite comments in HN by clicking on the timestamp and then clicking favorite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042178

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tptacek | karma 394296 | avg karma 6.04 · | 2017-05-22 19:52:28+00:00

This is actually a feature of HN (but a well-hidden one). My favorite comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=tptacek&comments=t

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zaroth | karma 24347 | avg karma 3.64 · | 2020-09-14 02:22:19+00:00

Someone did this for posts last week (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073) but I don't know if there would be enough overlap to do it for comments.

RandomBacon | karma 1882 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2019-10-14 15:11:14+00:00

You could just link to your comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21248111

(I assume that's the one you meant. "Ctrl-F" is very vague when you have a bunch of comments in this thread.)

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O__________O | karma 6259 | avg karma 3.7 · | 2023-03-05 09:30:33

Above being here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35027654

* To get a direct link to a HN comment, click timestamp for related comment; then click parent if additional context is needed.

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dang | karma 18142 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2023-12-01 17:02:24

You can flag comments as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cflag

route66 | karma 1664 | avg karma 5.82 · | 2012-04-02 14:05:40+00:00

User identification with the short comments usually found on HN might be difficult. The challenge still stands if I'm not mistaken: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199592

qup | karma 2183 | avg karma 1.8 · | 2023-04-05 18:35:54

I saved this comment a long time ago because I want to do the same thing. I haven't tried it yet:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28914331

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