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Thanks for your hunch. You have quite an impressive karma score considering your 68days old here. Thankfully I enjoy this site for more than my karma record.

Thanks for your hunch. You have quite an impressive karma score considering your 68days old here. Thankfully I enjoy this site for more than my karma record. Does deleting it remove the lost karma? Is the idea of negatively voting down a comment. ( Other than the obvious ) To encourage the user to delete it?

RyanMcGreal 17y ago
>Thanks for your hunch. Actually I was being facetious. :) > Does deleting it remove the lost karma? Not that I can tell. My guess is that 'deleting' a comment actually sets a 'deleted' flag somewhere in the data base rather than actually removing it; but I haven't looked at the code so I'm just speculating. > Is the idea of negatively voting down a comment ... To encourage the user to delete it? No. The purpose is to encourage commentary that follows the site's discussion guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (see section titled "In Comments") In fact, the window to delete a comment is only open for a set amount of time after posting, after which the site withdraws the option to delete.
- learnalist 17y ago
  Thanks for the link, the section you speak of gave me great insight.