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I lost all my points (karma).
When I woke up this morning my 19 points had turned to zero points. I suspect that someone was down-modding me. Firstly, I didn't even know there was a way to down-mod people, secondly, is there any way to get these points back and/or stop that person from down-modding me in the future.
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- pg 19y agoYou're right. Someone went on a downmodding spree. I restored your karma. Now I'm going to have to write some software to prevent this kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do...
- mattjaynes 19y ago~Flashback to 2002~ "Hey Paul, I keep getting all these junk email messages and they're filling up my inbox!" "You're right. Someone went on an emailing spree. Now I'm going to have to write some software to prevent this kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do..." http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
- palish 19y ago~Flashback to 1995~ "Hey Paul, my programs keep crashing and never get updated!" "You're right. Someone went on a desktop software spree. Now I'm going to have to write some software to prevent this kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do..." http://www.paulgraham.com/first.html http://www.paulgraham.com/first.html
- dfranke 19y ago~Flashback to 1993~ "Hey Paul, this C++ code takes ten thousand lines to get anything done and keeps doing a fandango on core!" "You're right. Someone went on a blub spree. Now I'm going to have to show people how to avoid subjecting themselves to this kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do..." http://paulgraham.com/onlisp.html http://paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
- pg 19y agoIt won't be anywhere near as complicated. All I have to do is not display down arrows on comments over a day old.
- palish 19y agoA week might be more fair.
- byrneseyeview 19y agoWhat about for articles off the front page?
- eposts 19y ago>Crystal ball into future< "Hey Paul, I am getting all these requests from YC clones to apply to their program." "You're right. Someone went on a cloning spree. Now I am going to have to do something to prevent this kind of kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do..." http://y2combinator.com/ http://y2combinator.com/
- brlewis 19y agoI actually have a little free time now while I let a professional designer loose on some of my pages. Just post the source to news.yc and I'll send you a patch.
- staunch 19y agoMaybe limit the number of "voting points" you get per day based on your karma? Works great at Perlmonks. Whoever it was went through my posts as well. I just figured I had pissed someone off with my Disqus post :-)
- pg 19y agoSure enough. It was the same guy. I'm not going to out him, because he has contributed significantly to the site, and I think this was just a lapse of judgement but please do not do this anymore.
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- Caligula 19y agoDownmodded as irrelevant to startup news.
- palish 19y agoDownmodded for being mean, and you only joined two weeks ago. Who are you to say? Edit: I apologize for not sensing teh humorz. It was not so blatant.
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- blored 19y agoThanks for restoring my karma everyone.
- pq 19y agoNo problem.
- ivankirigin 19y agoOhh, pq ... will you _ever_ have positive karma? :-P
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- menloparkbum 19y agoIf you can't downvote away people's karma, how do you make people who suck go away?
- far33d 19y agoYou should downmod the comments, not the person. What's happening here is that troll decides he doesn't like startupgeek, so troll goes to the threads page for startupgeek and downmods every single comment on there. If you think someone sucks, then downmod the sucky thing they said. Not all the non-sucky things.
- menloparkbum 19y agoI guess downmodding people doesn't really do anything, anyway. I still have to see all the future stuff they write. It would be cool if there was some way I could nuke people, so I wouldn't have to see posts or comments submitted by people like juwo, tracksuitceo, or one of guy kawasaki's sock puppets.
- pg 19y agoRight. There is no such thing as downvoting someone's karma. What you vote upon (unless you abuse the system) are individual comments and submissions. Karma is an overall score, not something you edit at will.
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