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I never knew that! This opens up so many more opportunities to comment! Thanks!

• igorgue 15y ago
  Hah, here's the prof http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196443 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196443 (I don't think there's any more unpopular comment you can make here) see it's -4 that shows but realistically I think I had -11 downvotes (it might be -10).
  • chc 15y ago
    -4 is the lowest score a comment can achieve. Downvotes past -4 won't reduce the post's score, but they will keep draining karma from the user. I don't think there's actually a limit on that.
    • corin_ 15y ago
      Actually they will reduce the comment's score too, it just won't show. The difference is that if it is showing -4 and someone upvotes it, it won't neccesarily go to -3, because it's actual score could be much lower.