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@pg Can I make a suggestion: down voting a comment should cost the down voter a karma point, as well as the person who wrote the comment. This would ensure tha
by alexkearns 17y ago
@pg
Can I make a suggestion: down voting a comment should cost the down voter a karma point, as well as the person who wrote the comment. This would ensure that people would think twice about down voting, and only down vote items that they really did not like.
I suggest this because I have seen many innocuous short comments - some attempts at humor - being downvoted to -10 or so. This seems somewhat unfair on the commenter.
- pj 17y agoI prefer cl where you get a daily refilled bucket of points you can assign to a post. you have so many points to assign (up or down) and you get more of those points over time. If you really like something a lot, you can give it 5 ups. if you really hate it, 5 downs... You start with none and can get 10, 20, 30... depending on account age. cl doesn't have karma points, so perhaps the daily bucket size could be determined by karma points...
- TomOfTTB 17y agoI upvoted you because I don't think you deserve to lose points for this post and someone else had already down voted you. That said this is like the stupidest idea I've ever heard. I'm no fan of the down vote but it exists to allow the community to weed out undesirable comments. So those people who use it are at least trying to perform a service to the community. To penalized them for that is ridiculous.
- kaens 17y agoI seem to remember that being the case on HN a while ago, can anyone confirm? If it was, I don't remember why it got changed, but there would have been a good reason for it. Unfortunately, I may just be confusing my web-site histories.