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Does hacker need even support downvotes? I only have an upvote button.
by _tom_ 5y ago
Does hacker need even support downvotes? I only have an upvote button.
- civilized 5y agoYou get to downvote if you get enough karma from your posts being upvoted. But a certain fraction of users seem to get a power trip from this, and downvote absolutely anything that doesn't tickle their fancy just so.
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- tome 5y agoPlease don't take downvotes on innocuous comments personally. Someone will come by and randomly downvote. Why? Who knows? A few minutes later someone else will restore the balance. On the other hand it's really annoying to read complaints about downvotes. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- madars 5y agoYou need to have karma above a certain threshold. It used to be > 500 (not sure what it currently is) https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvoting-comments https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...