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You can't downvote posts on HN, you can flag them but you can't downvote them. On HN, downvoting is only possible on comments.
by ZenoArrow 9y ago
You can't downvote posts on HN, you can flag them but you can't downvote them. On HN, downvoting is only possible on comments.
- bringtheaction 9y agoYou are right I forgot that, heh. Anyway, the problem remains that over time there will be more people to upvote so a post is likely to get more points if it was posted in the future than in the past.
- fghtr 9y agoNot really. Just tried to upvote an old post from 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243417 As a result, its score did not increase, although upvoting "worked".
- bringtheaction 9y agoNo I mean that a front page post five years ago had fewer people to vote on it so it would get fewer points simply for that reason compared to a front page post today.