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How does one even disprove your statement? If indeed it organically got upvoted how does one even prove that to you? Your argument against them is posited in wa
by chrischen 5y ago
How does one even disprove your statement? If indeed it organically got upvoted how does one even prove that to you? Your argument against them is posited in way that is impossible to counter.
I for one upvoted because this genuinely seemed like an interesting feature. It's clearly hitting a pain point for me as a developer, whether or not it actually ends up solving it satisfactorily.
- ushakov 5y ago
- oefrha 5y agoNow that’s just crossing the line.
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- Brian_K_White 5y agoAnd I would have downvoted, except there is no downvote button, and I'm too honest to flag.
- moffkalast 5y agoI wonder what's the karma requirement to downvote posts, not just comments, but clearly it's over 2000.
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- latexr 5y agoYou can’t downvotes submissions at any karma level[1]. > There are no down arrows on stories. They appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold, but never on direct replies. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- moffkalast 5y agoHm, interesting. I suppose it does prevent mass bot downvotes, but it also stops the community from pre-emptively removing posts such as this one that just stir up rage. Reddit would probably be unreadable without post downvotes.
- gk1 5y agoUsers can flag posts, which is kind of like a super-downvote. HN also penalizes posts that generate too many comments too fast, which it interprets as controversial.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoFlagging would be an abuse of another feature. I don't think the original post is quite wrong as in illegal or harmful or off topic. The commenter here's upvote counted, my downvote did not count. And I won't just use any other available form of attack like falsely accusing the post of some wrongdoing just because I want to criticise something and that's the only way to do it. I did leave a critical comment but that is a seperate issue because you can leave a positive comment and upvote. So the ability to comment nulls out.
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