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Tested upvote, worked. Tested undo upvote, worked. Tested downvote, worked. My testing is complete.
new user so pardon my ignorance but I dont have a downvote button. Do I need to enable it somewhere?
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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#222> 1. You can collapse comments in threads. If you're logged in, collapses persist across page refreshes and devices for a week. The most impressive thing to me is that this feature exists and yet HN seems to have kept its good ol' fashioned -layout. Obviously, it logically follows that it is perfectly possible to write a script to traverse a hierarchy of nested- , just as it's possible to recreate the Apollo guidance…
Hey, we need something to keep complaining about....
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#223Glad to see the "collapsing" feature. It's definitely helpful.
Weird to see the "favorite" one. I implemented it on my reader[1], but almost no-one used it ( I do though ).
Any update on whether auth will be given to the API consumers?
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#2243 doesn't ring true - why should I care what anyone favorites?
You needn't! But we hope it will create an interesting new way to find excellent stuff on HN that one otherwise wouldn't have seen. So much content—both good and bad, of course, but much of it superb—streams through this site that no one can see it all. Not even those of us whose job it is to monitor it.
Maybe this is just my jaded moderator perspective, but it sometimes feels like more attention gets paid to the bad stuff on HN (the latest flamewar, the latest shockingly offensive something-or-other) than to the brilliant, often quietly brilliant stuff that shows up here every day. That's clearly backwards, so we need new ways to give the best posts the attention they deserve. Shared favorites lists are one effort in that area.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Emailing hn@ycombinator.com is the way to ask us anything.
I was thinking more of a public place where others can see it. For instance, I would ask for a feature that downvoting shall require a mandatory comment or similar improvements to discourage anonymous drive-by-downvoting which gives you no info as to what's objectionable/irrelevant in your comment. From experience, 2/3 of the downvotes appear to be subjective likes/unlikes leading to anonymous downvotes. In fact, I n…
FWIW, here's a fun solicitation from pg from nearly 10 years ago: "Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
There are more than 1,700 comments (which would be a ton of comments on any thread today)...so I only skimmed through, but I think I saw way more suggestions that sound good that, for whatever reason, aren't implemented today.
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I can't downvote. How much Karma do I need to activate it?
I'm at 495 and can't downvote. Quick, 5 people upvote me and I'll tell you if it kicks in.
OK, at exactly 501 you get a little down arrow (doesn't appear at 500).
dang already confirmed it below, but at least I got to feel like a camgirl for 5 minutes.
Thanks for playing!
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
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That would certainly increase the number of accidental votes.
As it stands, I have already accidentally clicked "ago" and gone to a comment permalink when I wanted to collapse a thread. Not much better.
Since collapse persists on page loads, hopefully it is better now. Then again, we can un-vote now, so I think we're back to having the behavioral advantages and disadvantages being close enough that it's a toss-up what any particular user thinks is more of a problem.
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#228Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#229Feature request: a "fold all/none/random" button (top level, a single "link" cycling through would be fine.)
Rationale and further spec: "ain't+anyone+got+time+for" reading 400+ comments, not if they're doing anything else. Setting a profile value for the N comments I'm willing to look at in a first pass would help, and a random sampling would probably be fine.
Snag: desired behavior is folding off a single comment (i.e. hiding its text, leaving the id and time), not all those beneath, as current hierarchical folding obviously works.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#230I bet whoever has the top comment on this one is going to see their karma go up and down as everyone tests out the unvote and undown feature. :)
I wanted to upvote that comment and so I did!
Then later I changed my mind because really, it deserved a downvote.
Anger passed and facing the consequences of my actions I was nothing but a broken man. I brought back equilibrium and removed that downvote.
This is when I realized that the timing was perfect for a self-centered comment.