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We could use the "pile of poo" (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm) chara
by tunnuz 14y ago
We could use the "pile of poo" (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm) character for downvote instead!
- rmc 14y agoor for flag
- munchor 14y agoI have no downvote :S
- Inversechi 14y agoHow does one get down-vote?
- LeafStorm 14y agoI'm pretty sure you get downvoting powers at 500 karma. (At least, that's about when I got them. I have heard rumors that it fluctuates, and like all the mechanics of Hacker News, the precise rules are proprietary secret sauce.)
- jurre 14y agoI think it might be 550 nowadays (I think I got it at that mark a couple of months ago)
- jgeralnik 14y agoNope. I got it recently and can say for sure that it happened at exactly 500.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoI have downvote in this thread but not always. I find the removal of edit, reply and voting privelege at seemingly arbitrary conditions to be very annoying.
- sesqu 14y agoDownvoting is disabled for very new comments and for replies to comments you've upvoted, iirc. Editing is disabled after a "reasonable" time. I don't think replying is ever disabled.
- qw 14y agoI think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments
- tokenadult 14y agoI think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments Downvotes are disabled for any comment more than 24 hours old, but upvotes are still allowed after more than a day. Emphasize the positive.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoHa, and there we go, so I couldn't reply to you (no reply link) within the discussion but I can by following the "link" link and then replying. What's that all about? My main point would have to be that you have to work all of this out. Shouldn't it just be written in the FAQs. You could make the UI more helpful, like keep the reply link but disable it (eg with strike through) or have it popup a note "new comment: reply disabled for 5 minutes" or whatever. Or on pages with no downvote have a header comment in a box saying "downvoting disabled; all stories have down-voting disabled after 24 hours". Gah, I have to stop before I get on to not having collapsible threads and the lameness of greying out comments and not having vote count displayed and ...
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- obtu 14y ago500 karma according to this infrequently-updated FAQ: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#karma http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#karma
- mayneack 14y agoAs of 3 weeks ago, this is true. I checked mine at 501
- untog 14y agoAnyone know when you get to downvote submissions? I still don't have that yet.
- JshWright 14y agoYou can flag submissions, you can't downvote them.
- delinka 14y agoReplying beside untog because I'm not permitted to reply to untog. You don't downvote submissions. You just don't upvote if you don't like it.
- srbloom 14y agoSo upvote every submission except for the one you don't like.
- mkl 14y agoThis seems like a bad idea, since at small font sizes it will be a similar shape to the up-triangle, especially in fonts which (mostly) fill it in.
- obtu 14y ago♥ and 💩 have a nice symmetry.
- unwiredben 14y agoyes, a heart and the box with 01f489 look very similar (Firefox on Snow Leopard)
- obtu 14y agoTake this: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola702.zip http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola702.zip
- Charles__L 14y agoAnd the fact that it's a pile of poo.
- sesqu 14y agoAlso, it isn't in as many fonts, being emoji.
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- taftster 14y agoSite is hacker-newsed / hack-noosed / h-neutered. Try alternatives: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2011/11/17/10238146.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2011/11/17/10238146.... http://chryss.eu/?p=331 http://chryss.eu/?p=331 http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/02/unicode-character-pile-of-poo-u1f4a9/ http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/02/unicode-character-pile-of-po...