Do you doubt me? From your tone, and from the downvotes I have recieved, I guess so. However, I saw luckylion’s post in a state of being banned. I vouched for it, and I saw it be unbanned. Furthermore the moderators have described the mechanism, and listed the words as they were at one point:
Yes, I continue to doubt that a _user_ will be banned for using one of these words. I'm happy to believe that these words will cause that particular _comment_ to be killed, just that they won't cause a permanent ban for the user.
I think the issue is that we have a difference in terminology. I would never describe vouching as making a comment "unbanned". I think my terminology is correct, but I'll try to be sure before I continue to use it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23258425#23269284