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Ask HN: Do you flag HN posts in the absence of a downvote button?
- jcr 11y agoNo. You should not flag stories as a way to down-vote them. If you do that regularly, you will lose your flagging privileges. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >"If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)"
- greenyoda 11y agoYou can also flag duplicate submissions. Lots of people submit the same article as one that's already being discussed on the front page (or an essentially identical article from a different source), or an article that was submitted dozens of times a couple of days ago and actively discussed. (HN's dupe detector only catches duplicates that have exactly the same URL.)
- patio11 11y agoI reserve flags for things which manifestly shouldn't be on HN. If it's something I would simply prefer lower on the page, waiting a while generally suffices.
- Raed667 11y agoWhat's the current karma to get the downvote button ?
- greenyoda 11y agoI believe it's 500, but you can only downvote comments, not articles.
- mchahn 11y agoI just reached 501 karma and I can't see any download button. The threshold must have been raised again. Edit: I am starting to see them now, but only on some posts. I suspect there is some kind caching. In any case the threshold is definitely still 501.
- DanBC 11y agoYou need a karma of 30 to see the flag / vouch buttons. Click the timestamp of a submission or post to see those.