I'd like to add to my other comment about down voting.
Profiles should show up votes given and down votes given. As well as up votes received and down votes received.
The current single "score" is too vague. It lacks context.
Ask HN: What's your perfect Hacker News?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your perfect Hacker News?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes you think spam account creation is up and what changed in the last 2 years that made spam accounts so much more easily createable? Comment counts haven't changed but text post creation absolutely has. Given that no more stories are being flagged than usual, in fact if you amortize this over new user counts a lot less per user, I'm going to say that it's genuinely new text accounts that want to engage with…
I think it's the other way round - what makes you think these vertical temporary spikes of account creation can possibly be organic growth? Even viral growth doesn't look like that and, again, it's not reflected in the normal activity of the site. Creating accounts in bulk has always been trivial, there was a spam post with 600 upvotes just yesterday. As to the text posts, I'm not sure I understand its relationship t…
And an example of a current text posting spammer: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lilysmith3311
Re: Ask HN: What's your perfect Hacker News?
#33Giving a down vote costs you 2 (or more?) of your own votes. As the very least, down votes should require a comment. Even "false", "not true" or "disagree" would help. My sense is, there's a network of HN users who attempt to manipulate the exposure of ideas by downvoting them (to the point those comments aren't even exposed). Don't get me wrong, there are comments that deserve DV'ing. Moi? I can't be bothered. I jus…
We're explicitly not supposed to say why we've flagged an article, which I find confusing, but is in a similar vein.
Re: Ask HN: What's your perfect Hacker News?
#34At the moment, my "perfect Hacker News" is Mastodon. A curated feed of people sharing interesting things, and that's it. No viputerative snark, no performative cynicism, no wallowing in conspiracy theory, no flame wars, no race wars, no green accounts shouting slurs and death threats. No lectures whenever someone makes a joke or steps on one of an ever increasing and increasingly pedantic set of guidelines. It's ever…
> since trying to change the culture is a fool's errand
No it's not. If that were true, cultures would never change. Except they do, so clearly something is happening in that area.
Re: Ask HN: What's your perfect Hacker News?
#35> This is why I feel a little scared too scared to attach my main profile with thousands of karma to this post. If you've got a surplus, there's certainly no harm in risking a few points?
Yeah. This says more about OP than anything else. This isn't a remotely controversial post, and yet they couldn't attach their main account to it and had to post it from an alt? I've posted some seriously dumb stuff in hindsight and I guess I'm never running for public office because of it, but that level of fear is unwarranted.