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Do we know it's directly karma-driven? I'd hope it's more statistical, e.g., downvote to other activity ratio. I'd think that people who downvote very infrequ
by ibejoeb 13y ago
Do we know it's directly karma-driven? I'd hope it's more statistical, e.g., downvote to other activity ratio. I'd think that people who downvote very infrequently probably mean it.
On that topic, I'd really love to see downvotes with an accompanying comment weighted somehow.
- dang 13y agoIt's not karma-driven at all, except insofar as downvoting itself requires a karma threshold—a restriction that has been the same for years. It's possible that we'll lower the threshold at some point.
- specialk 13y agoThanks so much for the response. Can you tell us more about the algorithmic changes, or is the HN source code public?