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Users 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 controver
by gk1 5y ago
Users 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.