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Seems like it would be easy enough to disable voting on comments that are a few days old, or on stories that are no longer being visited. I would suggest disab

• jsnell 10y ago
  I don't think whybroke was being entirely truthful. Downvoting is already disabled for comments older than a day. Preventing upvoting of old comments would kind of suck, sometimes you only see really great comments years after they were posted.
  • whybroke 10y ago
    Perhaps so, I did not screenshot the posts of the last week. Certainly scores that were very positive yesterday are now negative. And certainly it began immediately after a post to wikipedia's marginal utility page which apparently disturbed someone's ideology. And it seems to have been aggravated further by this[1] post. But perhaps this is desired result. Either way the issue is no longer interesting to me. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12664519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12664519
    • noobermin 10y ago
      Not sure about what you're saying about last week's comments but I have experienced a day or so after a less popular comment I receive downvotes on other comments after that for what I consider less controversial comments. Could be selection bias. What I usually see though is that upvotes and downvotes tend to average to where they would have been otherwise even in those cases overtime. I just miss out on extra karma I suppose :)