As jacquesm says, + http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986986 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986986 + http://jacquesmattheij.com/HackerNews%2C+now+wit

As jacquesm says, + http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986986 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986986 + http://jacquesmattheij.com/HackerNews%2C+now+with+downvotes http://jacquesmattheij.com/HackerNews%2C+now+with+downvotes ... flags are already counted as down votes. He does also say this (in his item) > The downside of this being an obscure feature is that > knowledge of it could be abused by the less scrupulous > to push undesired articles off the homepage using a > series of flags. > > Another way to abuse this is by downvoting everything > except for the articles that you upvote PG has stated elsewhere that he has an "indiscriminant flagging" detector, and that when it gets triggered, subsequent flags from that person don't get counted.