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Bug? Or can you downvote stories on Hacker News?

• gaika 18y ago
  Go to the new page and see the entry in question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=257108 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=257108
  • hhm 18y ago
    I'm battling the temptation of upvoting it :)
    • LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
      No, it definitely earned that zero.
      • gaika 18y ago
        Somebody couldn't resist, now it has 1 :(
        • hhm 18y ago
          That wasn't me though.
• Alex3917 18y ago
  The bug is that when you submit a story it doesn't automatically get voted up. Still no downvoting.
  • byrneseyeview 18y ago
    I just submitted a story that immediately had an upvote. Under what conditions do stories not have an automatic upvote?
    • deleted 18y ago
      [deleted]
  • pg 18y ago
    Yes, looks like that's what happened. For some reason the submitter's initial upvote is not included in the votes of this story. I'm not sure how this happened. You sound like you've seen this before. Have you?
    • run4yourlives 18y ago
      I saw it earlier today... I added my upvote to sort it out. The only similarities were that both stories had no external urls... they were both questions to the community. Ah, here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256760 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256760
      • pg 18y ago
        Hmm, sure enough, the submitter is not listed in the voters for that one either. If anyone knows of any other examples, please let me know.
        • xlnt 18y ago
          For a day or two my votes didn't count. Maybe they were on moderation when they submitted?
          • pg 18y ago
            You triggered some automatic protection against some form of abuse. I forget what.
            • xlnt 18y ago
              I think that was when I downvoted all the congratulations in your wedding thread. :)
        • Alex3917 18y ago
          It happened on my last submission. At first I thought I'd been flagged as a spammer, but it still let me vote up manually.
• dandelany 18y ago
  I've been wondering about the point system too... Lots of comments have negative points, but I don't see how to downvote. Does downvoting require a certain amount of karma?
  • jmtulloss 18y ago
    Yes, I think it's like 25 before you can downvote comments.
    • Oompa 18y ago
      It's increased, I was hovering at 43 or so, without a down vote button. But then my karma jumped up to 73, and I can.
    • sfg 18y ago
      I am on 25 and I cannot down vote comments. Is karma rating the only mechanism for restricting this?
• paulgb 18y ago
  Kinda off-topic, but I noticed that you can't (or at least I can't) downvote direct replies to my own comments. I like this feature, but is it new or have I just never noticed it before?
  • aston 18y ago
    You never noticed before.
    • paulgb 18y ago
      Thanks. I guess I'm not as observant as I thought.
  • deleted 18y ago
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  • fendale 18y ago
    You need to get a certain karma before you can downvote comments. I think it was 100 before I could ...
• pg 18y ago
  Ok, I just tracked down the bug and fixed it. (It was in some new domain-banning code. The problem was that I was checking the domain even on url-less submissions, which caused an error between the point when the story was created and when it was upvoted by its submitter.)