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It's interesting that you need at least 501 karma to be able to downvote comments and posts, but only 31 to flag submissions. Kind of surprising considering that they say a flag is essentially a "super" downvote.
One feature I’d like to see is the split between upvotes and downvotes on a comment. It’s a measure of controversiality which I would find more interesting than the net score.
Yes. I’d much rather read comments with a high number of votes and net zero score than the two other extremes.
It's interesting that you need at least 501 karma to be able to downvote comments and posts, but only 31 to flag submissions. Kind of surprising considering that they say a flag is essentially a "super" downvote.
Out of curiosity, how do comments get flagged?
It's interesting that you need at least 501 karma to be able to downvote comments and posts, but only 31 to flag submissions. Kind of surprising considering that they say a flag is essentially a "super" downvote.
Out of curiosity, how do comments get flagged?
Small correction: the “web” link under a story now takes you to DuckDuckGo instead of Google.
Added it to the doc!
A new account posting a very old and famous post... almost looks like karma farming...
I've never seen it before, and I've been reading HN for years. A new user might naturally be interested in undocumented features and stumble upon. I can't help but notice that it's still missing `noprocrast` and related settings.
>Likewise, topics around diversity and inclusion in tech have gained lots of visibility over the past few years. However, despite these discussions not being off-topic, they tend to be flagged to death by users regardless. Time to see see if mentioning this very clear behavior gets this link flagged/killed. Privileged people usually don't like having their privilege challenged.
The fact that people here will generally flag this shit to death is good. This is a sign of maturity. The community has realised that discussions here on these topics are reliably unproductive, and will therefore kill them on sight.
"But what if this means killing the productive discussions here on this topic?" - well, it's a calculated risk...
An obvious one is brand new comments get a huge boost in the rankings compared to older comments. It is pretty common to see a few minute old comment at the top of a lot of comment threads. It also seems user reputation is a factor in this. A user with a good average karma score (a metric that used to be displayed publicly but is now hidden) seems to have their comments stay near the top longer than other users.
>If a user has 251 Karma, they can set the color of the top bar in their profile settings Why on earth is there a karma requirement for this, let alone such a high one?