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What does downweighting mean? Is it that users who upvote that comment have their votes mean less, or?

• dang 9y ago
  Yes. Edit: Well, it means the users who repeatedly upvote crap comments eventually have their votes ignored. https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html By 'crap' I mean something not as subjective as that sounds, which you can gather by reading those links and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
  • marksomnian 9y ago
    Aha, thank you. You learn something new about this site every day. Sometimes I wonder just how many robots (and humans) there are, ensuring that these discussions don't fill with crap. /me tips hat
  • daveguy 9y ago
    Is there any way to identify whether or not our upvotes or downvotes are being ignored? Any way to get feedback on whether hackernews thinks our personal opinions are worthwhile?
    • dang 9y ago
      You can always email hn@ycombinator.com and ask. But I don't like this phrasing: "our personal opinions are worthwhile". Try "violate the site guidelines". That's still subjective, but it's not as if we're trying to pick market winners. About that we really don't care, except maybe when it comes to APL.