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And, if a comment is downvoted just a few times, it effectively hides that comment, right? There is not much of a threshold to control a conversation with a few
by xrd 7y ago
And, if a comment is downvoted just a few times, it effectively hides that comment, right? There is not much of a threshold to control a conversation with a few robot accounts, right?
- gus_massa 7y agoA comment must get to get many downvotes before it is killed and hidden. [1] The site has protections against voting rings [1], I guess it has protections against downvoting rings [1]. If you have a clear example, try to email the mods so they take a look hn@ycombinator.com I (and many other users) upvote grey comments when they are not offensive or very wrong. (I also try not to downvote grey comments unless they are very offensive or extremely wrong.) So to kill the comment it is necessary to use even more robots.