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Where does HN display the downvote count for a post?
by codewiz 7y ago
Where does HN display the downvote count for a post?
- ardani 7y agoI don't think downvote counts are shown, even to high-karma posters.
- vinceguidry 7y agoYou can get a sense for how much a post is being downvoted by the shade of gray the post is displayed with. The closer to white, the more downvotes. HN stopped greying out your own posts, so it's not easy to determine exactly how the behavior is implemented. Personally, I find the greying of a post on even a single downvote to be quite unfortunate and easily abused. I feel a post should only start greying on the second downvote.
- brewdad 7y agoI find it useful and will upvote gray posts that I feel have been downvoted over disagreement rather than truly deserving the downvote. It's probably my most common reason for upvoting.
- akerl_ 7y agoIt’s potentially worth noting that downvoting over disagreement is considered in-line with the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17996858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17996858