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I always assumed there WAS downvoting for a submission once you hit a certain threshold of user karma. Like flagging and other community moderating functions.
by jermaustin1 5mo ago
I 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/