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You cannot downvote a comment after 24 hours have passed. This is a nice feature. One reason I stopped using certain subreddits was that people would look up
by dkarl 9y ago
You cannot downvote a comment after 24 hours have passed.
This is a nice feature. One reason I stopped using certain subreddits was that people would look up your comment history and downvote all your comments that weren't archived. I think those downvotes would eventually disappear, but it annoyed me enough that I stopped reading the subreddits where it happened.
- jandrese 9y agoEh, it's all fake internet points anyway. I occasionally get hit by an angry downvoter, but as long as your normal content is quality their effect is a drop in the bucket.
- PhantomGremlin 9y agoSo many people don't understand this. It's not like accumulating 10,000 karma will get someone a free cup of coffee at Starbucks. I don't deliberately troll to try to get downvotes, but I also don't fall to pieces when I do pick up a few.
- MichaelDickens 9y agoI would actually take the opposite side of this, I think saying "karma is just fake internet points" is missing something important. Karma is a rough metric for social approval, and social approval is one of the most important things for people. Now, karma isn't actually that great of a measure of social approval (you're unlikely to encounter your downvoters in real life; it's easy to get karma by making short uncontroversial comments; etc.), but it still means something, and it makes perfect sense to me that people would care about how much karma they have.
- jandrese 9y agoI would discourage using karma as any measure of worth for the reasons you described. If a user has lots of negative karma that might be something else, but a large positive karma may mean nothing more than the person has been active on the site for a long time and tends to post a lot and doesn't troll frequently. It doesn't mean they're super smart or some incredible subject matter expert or anything like that. They just have a lot of time to post and aren't a complete shithead. In fact site operators should put extra scrutiny towards accounts that accumulate karma too quickly. That could be a sign of bot activity or "account optimization" firms making a mockery of your reputation system.
- mmirate 9y agoThen people on HN are just being lazy, by not writing software to auto-downvote all future comments by people they dislike.
- dorgo 9y agonice idea for a saas.
- mmirate 9y agoAFAIK, HN has no OAuth2 or similar, so a SAAS would not work for this task; the users would have to host such software themselves on someplace that they trust with their HN password.
- itronitron 9y agoI can tell you are a very creative, intelligent, and resourceful person and am confident you have better uses for your time :)
- thaumasiotes 9y agoIf you tell me your password and I downvote everyone you hate, why is that less of a service than it would be if, instead of telling me your password, you gave me a special password with fewer permissions?
- mmirate 9y agoThe first service comes at the cost of losing one's entire account. The second one does not. Therefore the second one is far more valuable.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoAbusive voting can lead to revocation of your voting privileges. So perhaps people are just not wanting to screw themselves over.
- inopinatus 9y agoWhenever I feel sad about downvotes I remind myself that no-one will lie on their deathbed wishing they'd scored more points in the internet popularity contest.
- Houshalter 9y agoOn reddit you can not downvote comments from the user page. The downvote button is there but it doesn't do anything. People who know this can get around it possibly, but it's stopped a lot of that.