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Or just subtract one karma from the person doing the down-voting as well so people only down-vote when it's "really" worth it. Prolific down-voters would float

Or just subtract one karma from the person doing the down-voting as well so people only down-vote when it's "really" worth it. Prolific down-voters would float around the down-vote karma threshold and basically be rate limited by the number of upvotes they get.

fouc 8y ago
There's no way to detect the down voters unless they leave a comment indicating that?
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago
  I assume it's tracked in a DB (inb4 blockchain) somewhere so you can't downvote the same comment twice.
  - fouc 8y ago
    I was talking about HN users figuring out who is downvoting. Of course HN has it in its own database, but I don't think that bit of information is publicly exposed.
  - krapp 8y ago
    >I assume it's tracked in a DB (inb4 blockchain) Lisp tables in flat files, actually.
_0ffh 8y ago
That rate limiting idea sounds very good in principle. Unfortunately it would make the part about karma that's already slightly broken IMO into a major breakage: You have to write scores of reasonably popular comments to collect as much good karma as a single successful submission tends to give. That's on top of commenting tending to be more work than submitting. I've spent as much as half an hour of research on some comments, just to make sure I've got the details straight.