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Wow, it says -4, but I seem to have lost over 30 karma on this comment. Is -4 just the display cap?
by shasta 16y ago
Wow, it says -4, but I seem to have lost over 30 karma on this comment. Is -4 just the display cap?
- Groxx 16y agoI think it is. I've down-voted a couple -4s, but on refresh it still shows -4.
- Groxx 16y agoadditional thought, after ability to edit had passed: I wonder if it's to intentionally deflate scores which drop to -4. For particularly bad ones, it'd encourage moderators to downvote. Not that I particularly think yours is. Must've rubbed a few the wrong way.
- shasta 16y agoI'm surprised that ~45 and counting people would downvote this. I assume these are people who saw "See no evil, hear no evil" and are taking it out on me.
- scott_s 16y agoOr, they felt you turned an honest, personal, on-topic comment into a bad joke.
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- duairc 16y agoI don't get the joke or anything, but the honest, personal, on-topic comment is still there? Making a bad joke doesn't take away from that.
- riffic 16y agoupvoted, I thought it was funny.
- resdirector 16y agoQuick quips tend to polarize people on HN: either excessive upvotes or minus 4's. I think it's because since there's not much to go on (usually a sentence), it's like you're throwing all your eggs into a very small basket. And since HN already discourages one-liners, I think the moral is to quip at your peril! EDIT: this was meant to be a reply under @shasta.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoYes. This was mentioned some time ago - apparently the display of negative votes is capped but the votes continue to have an effect. Here's an idea: It would be interesting to have the minimum karma required to downvote an item increase with the absolute value of the existing value. Thus as a comment goes more and more negative, fewer and fewer people could successfully downvote it.