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It’s just the way hackernews works. You aren’t allowed to post vacuous comments like “this is great!”, or “I think op is spot on!” Because they are devoid of co
by newbamboo 5y ago
It’s just the way hackernews works. You aren’t allowed to post vacuous comments like “this is great!”, or “I think op is spot on!” Because they are devoid of content. So criticism, rightly or wrongly, tends to dominate. But the fact that you can’t downvote, only upvote, means even if your comments aren’t “positive” your impact on site content is. (I realize some people can downvote, but most of those aren’t real people.)
- oblib 5y agoI may be wrong but I think being able to "downvote" may be tied to a minimum "karma" points. I don't know what that minimum is though. I know I'm a real person and I can downvote. I'm sure it's fair to say I get more downvotes than I give and give way more upvotes than downvotes.
- Beldin 5y agoThe karma threshold for down voting is 600 I believe. HN's interface felt very positive to me without downvote buttons. S
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