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I worry that this will happen (or has happened) to me: I regularly use vouch to vouch for comments which I believe are unfairly flagged. Does that offend the moderators? I have no idea.

Yes is does. If you vouch for comments that get flagkilled your flagging/vouching rights get automatically removed quite quickly.

Same happened to me on another account. Long standing account with karma over 1000. One little spat and the account got rate limited and its votes did nothing - its flagging rights remained though for some weird reason... Since then I've been on throwaways.

Stating your case using the contact link is always an option.

Yep done that. That's when they basically said nope too bad so sad.

Time to create a new account.

Meh. I'd rather just continue scaling back my time spent here. It's becoming a more and more worthless site every day.