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Does HN allow you to go negative? I'd love to see a list of infamous HNers.

saagarjha 4y ago
Yes, it does, although karma on any individual comment is capped at -4 and if you keep posting them you may have moderation action taken against you.
- pvg 4y ago
  Your comments go auto-dead at a relatively small cumulative negative score so it's more of a robot moderator action.
blululu 4y ago
This prompted me to look. Could not find too much though I found this post suggesting that it can go negative. I would assume at a certain point your account would be banned so maybe there is a cap. Personally I would be surprised if these folks had websites. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609
prawn 4y ago
The TempleOS guy was probably one of the more memorable ones though you'd need showdead on to see a lot of the comments from his accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=templeos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=templeos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos Posted a lot but had fairly meagre karma. Some background about him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887
- mkl 4y ago
  It's case sensitive: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS
  - jacquesm 4y ago
    Seeing his comments come up as 'dead' is a bit too apt.
LifeIsBio 4y ago
It looks like this profile is the current winner for most negative: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Proven https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Proven
smegsicle 4y ago
as mentioned, tdavis certainly deserves recognition on that front reddit used to have a 'sort by most controversial' (iirc just downs plus ups) that bubbled the most interesting comments to the top, apparently they were going for types of users who weren't into that though
- jorams 4y ago
  You can still sort by controversial on reddit. In my experience the comments it bubbles to the top aren't very interesting, but mostly cheap shots. Like everything else about reddit, this probably depends on the subreddit.

Yes, it does, although karma on any individual comment is capped at -4 and if you keep posting them you may have moderation action taken against you.

pvg 4y ago
Your comments go auto-dead at a relatively small cumulative negative score so it's more of a robot moderator action.

blululu 4y ago

This prompted me to look. Could not find too much though I found this post suggesting that it can go negative. I would assume at a certain point your account would be banned so maybe there is a cap. Personally I would be surprised if these folks had websites. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609

prawn 4y ago

The TempleOS guy was probably one of the more memorable ones though you'd need showdead on to see a lot of the comments from his accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=templeos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=templeos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos Posted a lot but had fairly meagre karma. Some background about him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887

mkl 4y ago
It's case sensitive: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS
- jacquesm 4y ago
  Seeing his comments come up as 'dead' is a bit too apt.

LifeIsBio 4y ago

It looks like this profile is the current winner for most negative: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Proven https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Proven

smegsicle 4y ago

as mentioned, tdavis certainly deserves recognition on that front reddit used to have a 'sort by most controversial' (iirc just downs plus ups) that bubbled the most interesting comments to the top, apparently they were going for types of users who weren't into that though

jorams 4y ago
You can still sort by controversial on reddit. In my experience the comments it bubbles to the top aren't very interesting, but mostly cheap shots. Like everything else about reddit, this probably depends on the subreddit.