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Ask HN: Why's there no down-vote option?
Social News websites usually have both upvote and downvote options. But not HN. Your thoughts and analysis behind this trend?
- treskot 14y agoThere's definitely a reason behind this. To cut down spam submissions can be flagged. Also, comments can be down voted after a user accumulates sufficient "karma" or points gained when submissions or comments are voted up.
- sheraz 14y agoI think the downvote option appears after you have a certain number of karma points. 500 or so?
- treskot 14y agoI believe that option is only available for down voting comments and not for parent links/posts.