Thank you!
#2 in particular is most welcome; as hard to hit as the buttons are on mobile, I've misvoted a few times, and I'm glad I can finally correct that when it happens again.
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#252Suggestion: Can you move the collapse button to the left of the username? One way I tend to use nested comment threads is reading all top comments, collapsing as I go. Great stuff, overall -- thanks!
That would certainly increase the number of accidental votes.
But at least now we can undo upvotes/downvotes so it's not as much of an issue as before!
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#253How do you reverse a hide on the homepage? I am not seeing anyway to do that.
You have to go to the /hidden page. We'll add a link to that from your profile (but it's not there yet).
It would be nice if there were a way to do this from the front or newest page themselves but that's kinda inconsistent with hiding the thing.
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#254Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#255How do you reverse a hide on the homepage? I am not seeing anyway to do that.
> 4. On the front page and /newest, click 'hide' if you no longer want to see a story. The next story in the list will slide up at the bottom. If you change your mind, visit /hidden and click 'unhide'. If you're logged in, hidden stories persist for a week.
So ... navigate to https://news.ycombinator.com/hidden in your location bar.
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
you need to have a certain amount of karma (number next to your account) for the downvote function to be available.
A few weeks ago I recently obtained the downvote ability at 500 karma.
I suspect you mean 501. I reached 500 a few weeks ago, and left it there for a while... it was such a nice, round number.
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#257I'm concerned about the "voting" feature. Years ago we had a downvote feature. Basically, downvoting lead to a big decline in the quality and level of discussion going on.
pg removed it because it was leading into a trend of people downvoting comments because they disagreed with them, not because the comment in question wasn't making valid points.
And if the collapse feature could be moved to the left, woot!
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#258How do you reverse a hide on the homepage? I am not seeing anyway to do that.
You have to go to the /hidden page. We'll add a link to that from your profile (but it's not there yet). It would be nice if there were a way to do this from the front or newest page themselves but that's kinda inconsistent with hiding the thing.
I notice when I navigate to /hidden there's a link called "hidden" that shows in the header with all the other main links, but it doesn't show anywhere else.
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#259Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#260Thank you, these are all fantastic except #4. The problem with the story-hide feature is that some days you may think something is not interesting from the title, but then an hour later there are 100 comments. edit: A solution is not "well then don't use the hide feature" - Because this feature is site-wide, in some cases, that momentum would never occur.
I'm using it only to hide obvious spam from the newest page that is already [dead]. It is boring to review the newest page later and see again all the spam. I hope this help me to find a the good stories.