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The first thing this has me thinking is that it looks like a "subreddit" of HN. I'm surprised to not have seen or heard of a Reddit style site with HN voting r
by pcote 14y ago
The first thing this has me thinking is that it looks like a "subreddit" of HN. I'm surprised to not have seen or heard of a Reddit style site with HN voting rules on it.
- Kiro 14y agoHN voting rules? I thought reddit used the exact same voting system as HN.
- untog 14y agoNot quite, no. You can't downvote stories (only comments, when you reach an appropriate karma level) and the algorithms for story/comment decay seem to be wildly different.
- rschmitty 14y agoReddit downvoting is ridiculous at times. People just downvote whenever they see something they don't like or disagree with. For example, anyone that dislikes {lang} will just downvote any {lang} article vs Reading the {lang} article and downvoting it if it's just linkspam
- untog 14y agoHacker News isn't really that different- people flag the article instead of downvoting it, so it takes even fewer people to bury a story. It's happened more times than I can count.