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As I understand it, -4 is the lowest you can get (basically everyone hates your point of view), so you may have found a bug but more likely found 5 or so people
by lifeisstillgood 5mo ago
As I understand it, -4 is the lowest you can get (basically everyone hates your point of view), so you may have found a bug but more likely found 5 or so people who don’t like you quicker than expected!
I have seen (my) posts bounce up and down so there I suspect there is a lot of
Voting going on compare to actual movement. But in the end HN is biased for positivity (as you cannot go lower than -4)
But someone with sight of codebase might have more useful comments
- john_strinlai 5mo agothe interesting part here is that it is a submission with negative karma, not a comment. there is no downvote button on submissions, so it doesnt make sense for it to get negative karma.
- jermaustin1 5mo agoI always assumed there WAS downvoting for a submission once you hit a certain threshold of user karma. Like flagging and other community moderating functions.
- mplanchard 5mo agoI have not hit it yet, if there is one. Only options are upvoting, flagging, etc.
- MBCook 5mo agoSame. Maybe flags count as -1 after enough?
- fortran77 5mo agoYes there is.
- deleted 5mo ago[deleted]
- belthesar 5mo ago[flagged]
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- john_strinlai 5mo agoi have 2000 karma and i am not able to downvote submissions.
- michaelmrose 5mo agoNope I have 10k
- c22 5mo agoAre you able to downvote stories?
- ColinWright 5mo agoI think you are mistaken. FWIW: I have over 135K karma and I can't downvote submissions.
- thunderbong 5mo agoNope
- registeredcorn 5mo ago(Open question to anyone reading this) I've been meaning to ask for quite a while now: What exactly is "flag" supposed to indicate? I assume it's something more specific than "dislike". I take it to mean something along the lines of, "I think this is (sneaky) spam", or "This does not fit on a technology news site, even tangentially.". Or, perhaps something broader like, "I can't describe what the problem is, but this submission/comment should be reviewed by a moderator." It's just never been particularly clear what the intention of it is.
- benoau 5mo ago> The purpose of flagging is to indicate that a story does not belong on HN. Frivolous flagging—e.g. flagging a story that's clearly on-topic by the site guidelines just because one personally dislikes it—eventually gets an account's flagging privileges taken away. But there's a new 'hide' link for people to click if they'd just like not to see a story. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173809
- registeredcorn 5mo agoAh, interesting. Thanks!
- tstrimple 5mo agoRegardless of the intended purpose. The most common use case is super dislike.
- ColinWright 5mo agoFWIW: I have over 135K karma and I can't downvote submissions.
- nostrademons 5mo ago83,000 karma and no downvote button on submissions for me. I think that a submission might get negative votes for being flagged, though, so if 11 people hit the "flag" button that might take it to -10.
- Imustaskforhelp 5mo agoA bit offtopic but seeing your karma, I remembered that sometime ago I had made a website which finds how many words a person has written on hackernews and leaderboard stats around it. I got curious so I checked it with your account and you are globally #23 in that you have written most words and you have written 1,822,427 words which is like 6+ games of thrones (if one GOT has around 300k words) I also just saw that you have been on hackernews since feb 2007 Your hackernews account is older than me as I was born in 2008 ;) I am curious how did you find hackernews and what you made stick to the platform for so long and are you perhaps some user number x of hackernews itself like say user number 230 of hackernews, I would be curious to find this data if you might know. I do wonder if there are any tips in general life that you have for a person like me and I would love to hear your answers! Thanks for reading and have a nice day :-D https://serjaimelannister.github.io/hn-words/ https://serjaimelannister.github.io/hn-words/
- fortran77 5mo ago[flagged]
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- neilv 5mo agoAre you making a joke, like I did about 32767, when I hit 31337? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760058
- tnelsond4 5mo agoIt's the maximum value of a signed 16 bit integer. But there's a GitHub page that explains hn lore.
- whilenot-dev 5mo agoWhat HN-lore page are you referring to? This[0] one explicitly states: > Although submissions cannot be downvoted, [...] [0]: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggingvouching https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
- tnelsond4 5mo agoI meant to reply to John who was asking where someone was getting the 32768 number from. No idea if it's true, but that's the significance of that number. Yeah that's the lore page does look like there's no downvoting submissions then and people are just trolling.
- thunderbong 5mo agoNope
- nickpsecurity 5mo agoThey come in mobs or waves, too. Historically, they show up first while the reasonable people show up later, sometimes reversing those votes. Others here have noted that phenomenon.
- genxy 5mo ago> But in the end HN is biased for positivity Ha ha ha.