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No, after 500 karma, you can down-vote comments, but not submissions. I fairly sure there is a second karma threshold (or other gating mechanism) which gives y
by jcr 14y ago
No, after 500 karma, you can down-vote comments, but not submissions.
I fairly sure there is a second karma threshold (or other gating
mechanism) which gives you the ability to down-vote someone who you've
replied to, or is replying to you. --I'm not sure how it works, and
it's not public information, so asking for details is pointless.
In essence, the second level seems to mean you're trusted to use
down-votes wisely.
Personally, I often up-vote people who reply to me with disagreements
(even if they are too strongly worded). My reason is simple; I may
never agree with them, but I DO appreciate the time they took to
give me their point of view.
- tokenadult 14y agoI fairly sure there is a second karma threshold (or other gating mechanism) which gives you the ability to down-vote someone who you've replied to, or is replying to you. I'd like a reality check on this statement. What have other users observed? I think the routine behavior is that users with downvote privileges on comments can downvote comments other than those that are direct replies to their own comments and submissions. But I could be mistaken. What is the general case for most users who can downvote at all? I agree with the OP that the best policy here is upvote what is good. Upvote early and often if you see good stuff. A previous thread I saw suggested flagging blogspam ruthlessly, because that supports the community guideline "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- jcr 14y agoI've only seen it happen occasionally, but when it does happen, it's consistent for the occurrence, well, at least for a little while. It does not last for very long, so there's a time element involved, similar to how you get a "Can't make that vote" error if you try to up-vote something that is too old. It might be a bug caused by how caching is handled, or it might be intentional, either way, I've never actually tested to see if the odd down-vote button on a parent post actually works.
- gala8y 14y agoI agree with the OP that the best policy here is upvote what is good. Upvote early and often if you see good stuff. It is an interesting approach. Not going into the details, brain is basically working this way - instead of trying to suppress neuronal activity for all inputs but the signal, it just amplifies the signal to have it above the sea of all other activity.
- biot 14y agoI would like to be able to upvote stories without the story going into the "saved stories" section of my user profile. I use this (perhaps obsolete) feature as a means to mark things I would like to reference later, and upvoting everything which was quality but which I don't want to reference again would defeat the purpose. Having a separate "save" link which puts articles into the saved stories section would address this use case. Or perhaps one day I should go back through all my saved stories and bookmark the ones which are still relevant so that I can upvote all submissions which are good. Maybe a future version of HN will do away with "saved stories" as it's likely the intent of upvoting articles is meant to be the same as upvoting comments... and there's no "saved comments" section.