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Hacker News really needs some feature to down-vote ... ;-)
by coke 12y ago
Hacker News really needs some feature to down-vote ... ;-)
- Artemis2 12y agoYou can, once you reach a certain karma threshold.
- ColinWright 12y agoAll this is unofficial, but based on my own observations: You can never down-vote a submission. When you have enough karma you can: * Down-vote comments * Flag comments * Flag submissions Flags on submissions affect their ranking in a manner similar to down-voting, except that enough flags can result in a submission being deleted entirely.
- Artemis2 12y agoI'd say that you might not have enough karma to have access to all the features.
- ColinWright 12y agoAre you suggesting that with enough karma one can down-vote a submission? I certainly don't have enough karma yet.
- Artemis2 12y agoOnly Paul Graham knows.
- ColinWright 12y agoOr any of the others who work on the code. However, even jacquesm[0] - third on the leader board[1] - says that to the best of his knowledge one cannot downvote articles: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#downvotearticle [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
- dang 12y agoThere are no downvotes on stories, unless you consider flagging a kind of story downvote. That's a legitimate way to look at it, since it answers the complaint upthread [1]: if you think that a story is not appropriate for HN, that's what flagging is for. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8124546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8124546
- dang 12y agoFlags never delete a submission entirely. We don't delete submissions unless users ask us to (and have a good reason). Everything else remains visible with 'showdead' turned on in your profile.