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Tell PG: The HN down-vote feature is broken.
The Hacker News down-vote feature is broken with this new "not showing the votes" thing. There's no indication of the number of up-votes, but down-voted items automatically draw negative attention by changing color. The changing color just creates a mob mentality that results in more downvotes. I'm certain that if a down-voted item didn't change color that it wouldn't draw attention that results in additional downvotes. Right now, the only remedy is to copy the down-voted comment, delete it, and then paste it as new to avoid the different color.
- worldvoyageur 15y agoI understand the sentiment, but I actually like how the fading of down-voted comments functions at present. Morbid curiosity often causes me to highlight severely down-voted items to see what was said. Plus, I'll sometimes up-vote a down-voted item simply because I share your distaste at what appears to have been a harsh mob reaction. Absent the fade signal, I'd not have known my vote was required to help in some small way rebalance the scales of karmic justice.