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HN is a property, so I suspect the politics of downvoting are beside the point. I've had one or two vigorously up-voted comments manually pushed beneath grayed
by jstewartmobile 8y ago
HN is a property, so I suspect the politics of downvoting are beside the point.
I've had one or two vigorously up-voted comments manually pushed beneath grayed-out ones. I have heard others suspect/complain that the points awarded to their posts/comments have not always been one-to-one. Manual moderation is a powerful (and not always transparent) force here.
And as long as everyone knows what the game is, I have no complaints about that. It's YC's board. They can do what they want with it.
- dang 8y agoWe do that mostly in an effort to prevent discussions from bogging down in predictability. We read HN more than (almost) anyone else does, so we've got the patterns of boredom in our bones.