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I did not know that you could make polls on HN and I’m also 5 karma points short of being able to make them. Besides that, I don’t think that I would make polls
by grumblepeet 5y ago
I did not know that you could make polls on HN and I’m also 5 karma points short of being able to make them. Besides that, I don’t think that I would make polls here, I value the good story links posted and the insightful replies, and often when I see polls in other places it just seems to ignite flame wars and low value discussions. It’s a good thing that it is obscure, long may it be rarely used!
- readingnews 5y agoomg, I did not even know we have "karma" here (never looked at my "profile") I actually read HN to get away from stuff like that. Funny, perhaps people come to HN as most people here do not pay attention to those items.
- josefrichter 5y agoYou though you escaped, but karma eventually got you.
- wongarsu 5y agoHN tries to curb the karma addiction by not showing the karma of comments (other than your own), while still keeping it as a proxy for reputation (both in the profile and to gate certain features, most notably the ability to downvote). Not being able to easily compare yourself to others certainly helps, even if it isn't perfect.
- moneywoes 5y agoHow much karma do we need to downvote?
- whelming_wave 5y agoif i recall correctly, 500
- vulcan01 5y agohttps://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented is useful in figuring out these undocumented karma limits.
- southerntofu 5y agoAnd i believe you can't downvote direct replies to your messages, which i think is great. Either you provide an answer, or ignore the comment. The downvote flamewars are avoided either way.
- bachmeier 5y agoBy far the most important for me is the absence of notifications. I avoid Reddit most of the time because there's no option to turn off notifications, or even clear notifications without reading them. Your only option is to click the button that takes you to the page with the reply to your comment.
- southerntofu 5y agoMaybe i've missed something, but the only way i've been able to browse replies so far is via the threads?id=myself page. is there another way?
- davchana 5y agoI use hnreplies.com
- behnamoh 5y agoYou can disable that element of the Reddit website using uBlock origin.
- gs17 5y ago> or even clear notifications without reading them. Your only option is to click the button that takes you to the page with the reply to your comment. As a "clear" feature, you can always open that page in a new (background) tab, let it load so Reddit thinks you saw it, then close the tab without ever looking at the content. No idea if this works on new.reddit, but it's possible on old.reddit.
- wongarsu 5y agoAlso seeing the whole thread started by your reply. Reddit notifications make it feel like a 1:1 conversation, while HN encourages true many:many threads
- telesilla 5y agoKarma on this site is more of a means to manage trolls, by way of leveraging the community's response to individual's posts that may over time show a pattern. Karma doesn't mean much here in terms of visibility - over time your best-voted comment might be at the bottom of a long thread. If you get enough, you can downvote but I'm wary of doing that outside of obvious trolling or maliciousness.
- serial_dev 5y agoI'm glad you now got the needed karma to create polls :)
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y agoHow much karma is needed?