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I agree with you except my stipulation is that you must reply to a comment before you can downvote it. But also, keep in mind that limiting downvotes to max -4
by _8j50 4y ago
I agree with you except my stipulation is that you must reply to a comment before you can downvote it.
But also, keep in mind that limiting downvotes to max -4 is how HN is able to maintain quality in many ways.
- politician 4y agoThe max of -4 is only what is displayed. It's likely that they keep track of the actual number of downvotes. When you're at -2 it actually takes a bit to get down to -4, almost like there's linear scaling above 0 and logarithmic scaling below zero. I would not be at all surprised if karma played a factor in this as well.