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No system will be free of problems or gaming. But, doesn't hacker news actually have implicit down voting by way of time? HN isn't designed to be a searchable
by massung 6y ago
No system will be free of problems or gaming.
But, doesn't hacker news actually have implicit down voting by way of time? HN isn't designed to be a searchable Q&A or forum. It's a "what's a currently popular" site. If something isn't good, it just disappears faster than the opposite.
Have I wished I could down vote things sometimes? Sure. But then I just wait 5 minutes, refresh, and it's gone.
- type0 6y agoActually instead of counting down-votes HN software could just count how often a post was up-voted and then that vote regretted (reversed) and adjust the visibility to boost or silence. But that is still susceptible to misuse so there should be a limit on how often that would count.
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