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by dakrisht 14y ago
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- wtracy 14y agoThe little up and down arrows to the left of each post let you upvote or downvote a post. (If you're below the karma threshold, you won't see the down arrow.)
- jrockway 14y agoNobody can see other people's scores, so it's not a good way to indicate agreement. In fact, it's unclear as to what the purpose of voting is at all.
- derefr 14y agoThe purpose of voting is to sort comments on the page, so that you can save time by only reading the first (theoretically, the "best") N comments in a thread.
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- robin_reala 14y agoVoting affects the order of comments: comments with a higher score (among other factors) will appear nearer the top.
- NanoWar 14y agoBtw. that threshold seems to be 500 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529).
- mpyne 14y agoSweet, so in a couple more years I'll finally be able to see that down arrow! :)
- ahlatimer 14y agoIt's changed a few times over the years, so I wouldn't get your hopes up. I've lost and gained it before. I think it was around 100 when I joined, then it went up to 250 or so, now it's apparently 500.
- easytiger 14y agowhat's the magical threshold? I've been on here for years and I'm only at 31