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How important on HN do you have to be to have a downvote link?
by lucraft 17y ago
How important on HN do you have to be to have a downvote link?
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- ryanwaggoner 17y agoStories do not have downvote links, but you can flag.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoI believe you can't downvote an item, you can only flag it. I'm not sure what the karma level is on that. HN has, more recently, been more tolerant of what I think of as "items that titillate teenage boys." Such items are defended by people saying that they "gratify one's intellectual curiosity." Personally I think such items are like car-crashes. You know you shouldn't look, but if you've got a grain of curiosity, you'll look anyway. I flag them, and if enough others do then they get deleted. I certainly don't give them votes. I am one of many, others' opinions will differ. From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find > interesting. That includes more than hacking and > startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, > the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's > intellectual curiosity.