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There should be an option to abstain from voting as well, for those that don't know if it's a valid comment or not.

• nathanb 15y ago
  Isn't that just called "not voting"?
  • angusgr 15y ago
    I think they mean "not voting but still being able to see how people voted on that particular comment"
    • allwein 15y ago
      About 4 seconds after that feature was implemented, someone would write a greasemonkey script that clicks all the abstain buttons for an HN article.
      • angusgr 15y ago
        If you choose to run that script then you're choosing to not vote at all (assuming votes can't be changed, which they can't now.) Which means you can't contribute to the "social confirmation up/down vote pile-on" problem either. So that particular problem would remain solved.