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No doubt the exceptionally high score for this post is primarily down to folk upvoting to check if they have the same problem.
How is a user's karma calculated?
Roughly, the number of upvotes on their submissions and comments, minus the number of downvotes. (The numbers won't exactly match up, because some votes aren't counted to prevent various types of abuse.)
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> Do you mean there if a karma threshold on something else? There's a karma threshold for downvoting and flagging. Those are not new but I ventured a guess that there may now be a similar threshold for upvoting.
I thought it was "common knowledge" that there's a 500 karma threshold to upvote? However, I couldn't find anything "official" right now, other than a reference under: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242385 (I thought it was in the faq? Did I miss it?)
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I guess so. I think it disappeared after I flagged a lot of comments in one thread, but I'm not really sure (and it happened a few years ago).
AFAIK there's no "flag" on comments, just stories (conversely, there's no downvotes for stories, just comments). Or maybe I just don't have enough karma to see it (or I lost it long ago). An other weird thing about HN: sometimes I can't see the "reply" link on a comment for a while, even if I reload. Like, I wanted to reply to your post earlier but I couldn't even though ch0wn had already posted his own. I don't unde…
There were flag links on both comments and stories before they disappeared for me.
An other weird thing about HN: sometimes I can't see the "reply" link on a comment for a while, even if I reload.
It's a feature to help prevent long flamewar threads.
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I guess so. I think it disappeared after I flagged a lot of comments in one thread, but I'm not really sure (and it happened a few years ago).
AFAIK there's no "flag" on comments, just stories (conversely, there's no downvotes for stories, just comments). Or maybe I just don't have enough karma to see it (or I lost it long ago). An other weird thing about HN: sometimes I can't see the "reply" link on a comment for a while, even if I reload. Like, I wanted to reply to your post earlier but I couldn't even though ch0wn had already posted his own. I don't unde…
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> Do you mean there if a karma threshold on something else? There's a karma threshold for downvoting and flagging. Those are not new but I ventured a guess that there may now be a similar threshold for upvoting.
I thought it was "common knowledge" that there's a 500 karma threshold to upvote? However, I couldn't find anything "official" right now, other than a reference under: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242385 (I thought it was in the faq? Did I miss it?)
No idea how to tell if my upvotes 'count' or not.
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I guess so. I think it disappeared after I flagged a lot of comments in one thread, but I'm not really sure (and it happened a few years ago).
AFAIK there's no "flag" on comments, just stories (conversely, there's no downvotes for stories, just comments). Or maybe I just don't have enough karma to see it (or I lost it long ago). An other weird thing about HN: sometimes I can't see the "reply" link on a comment for a while, even if I reload. Like, I wanted to reply to your post earlier but I couldn't even though ch0wn had already posted his own. I don't unde…
I lost flagging privileges, it's not binary. You can lose some ability without getting (shadow)banned. How do you know your upvotes don't count? Who knows, maybe there's a karma threshold for that too now.
Also I've been long suspecting that my downvotes don't work either. I have the arrows and they are clickable, but they seem to do anything. Pretty annoying actually.