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Show HN: Automatically upvote downvoted comments on Hacker News
- minimaxir 10y ago> Many useful comments on HN are downvoted without reason, or otherwise petty reasons. This userscript automatically upvotes any downvoted/grayed-out comments to counteract this phenomenon. A script to make arbitrary upvotes to counter arbitrary downvotes fixes nothing.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThere are definitely comments with merit that get downvoted for no reason, but there are also a lot of comments that absolutely deserve to be downvoted. Do you theorize that those will still be adequately penalized despite people theoretically using your script?
- krapp 10y agoI'm not certain, but I assume HN attempts to detect bot-driven voting and that this script might get people banned. A sequence of posts being upvoted faster than would be humanly possible is an obvious sign that a human isn't doing the voting. I'd be careful using this from an account you actually care about.