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I lost flagging privileges, it's not binary. You can lose some ability without getting (shadow)banned. How do you know your upvotes don't count? Who knows, may
by spindritf 13y ago
I lost flagging privileges, it's not binary. You can lose some ability without getting (shadow)banned.
How do you know your upvotes don't count? Who knows, maybe there's a karma threshold for that too now.
- gbog 13y ago> too Do you mean there if a karma threshold on something else? Is it new? I have noticed a marked improvement in HN content in the last two weeks.
- spindritf 13y ago> Do you mean there if a karma threshold on something else? There's a karma threshold for downvoting and flagging. Those are not new but I ventured a guess that there may now be a similar threshold for upvoting.
- e12e 13y agoI thought it was "common knowledge" that there's a 500 karma threshold to upvote? However, I couldn't find anything "official" right now, other than a reference under: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242385 (I thought it was in the faq? Did I miss it?)
- iambateman 13y agoI have <500 karma and can upvote. Unless it's not actually doing anything.
- ressaid1 13y agoI have other friends that have low Karma points and can upvote. Its definitely not a Karma threshold.
- Suitov 13y agoI see an upvote arrow next to comments and stories, and I'm a very infrequent poster with next to zero karma. No idea how to tell if my upvotes 'count' or not.
- GrinningFool 13y agoThat threshold is for downvoting. Upvoting - at least for me - has been available since I created my account 3-4 months ago.
- e12e 13y agoOh, of course.
- simias 13y agoGiven that most people in this thread complaining about their upvotes not registering seem to have a karma below 500 it might well be that. If that's the case I'm surprised they didn't make it explicit by removing the arrow altogether (like the down arrow is not displayed when you don't have enough karma for it). Seems a bit deceitful. That being said it might just be a bug somewhere.
- kybernetyk 13y ago> I lost flagging privileges, it's not binary. You can lose some ability without getting (shadow)banned. How do you find out about that? Doesn't the 'flag' link show up anymore?
- dchest 13y agoSame here. Yep, there's no flag link anymore.
- pvnick 13y agoI can still flag things - both posts and comments. Could your flagging history be perceived as excessive?
- dchest 13y agoI guess so. I think it disappeared after I flagged a lot of comments in one thread, but I'm not really sure (and it happened a few years ago).
- ch0wn 13y agoI lost my flag privileges for posts a long time ago. Is there a separate one for comments, ie. a different action than downvoting?
- frogpelt 13y agoIt seems like a monthly quota of flags would make more sense than a lifetime quota. There again, this is not my site.
- simias 13y agoAFAIK there's no "flag" on comments, just stories (conversely, there's no downvotes for stories, just comments). Or maybe I just don't have enough karma to see it (or I lost it long ago). An other weird thing about HN: sometimes I can't see the "reply" link on a comment for a while, even if I reload. Like, I wanted to reply to your post earlier but I couldn't even though ch0wn had already posted his own. I don't understand what triggers that behaviour.
- huhtenberg 13y agoSame here. Lost it on the day when Jobs died trying to get at least something different on the front page. Also I've been long suspecting that my downvotes don't work either. I have the arrows and they are clickable, but they seem to do anything. Pretty annoying actually.
- jonnathanson 13y agoAre you sure you lost them? Scanning through the posts here, it seems a lot of people just don't know where to look. You have to click "link" on a comment, or reply to the comment to be taken to the text editor screen. From either of these screens, the "flag" option appears. Now, whether this is good or bad UX is up to the admins to decide. I assume "flag" is buried a little bit to prevent abuses of it, just as replying to someone's replies to yourself is delayed a little bit to prevent rapidfire back-and-forths.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoI lost my flagging ability long ago. I habitually flagged political stories that others upvoted. Apparently going against the crowd flagged me for flagging. Heh. Not the way I'd design it to work, but then it's not my site.
- acheron 13y agoYeah I've wondered about that. I've flagged some BS political stories too and wondered if I was endangering my flagging privileges by disagreeing. I don't really care, but interesting to know.
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- ressaid1 13y agoThe reason I know is that I click upvote and it never assigns any points