Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user.
Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user.
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Re: Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user.
#2You need a few points yourself first (no idea what the threshold is). Post some interesting items or join in the debates in the "comments".
I think you can probably see that this is a guard against "sock puppets" being used to promote spam posts.
Re: Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user.
#3The threshold is about 2 karma points for being able to upvote a story.
Re: Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user.
#4It looks like on this site, anyone can express an opinion of agreement with an up vote but only some who have earned it are allowed to express they disagree by using a down vote. Anyone can comment though.
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#5Thank you all. It works.
Re: Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user.
#6It looks like on this site, anyone can express an opinion of agreement with an up vote but only some who have earned it are allowed to express they disagree by using a down vote. Anyone can comment though.
No matter how many karma points you have, you can't downvote a story. You can only upvote or flag a story.
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#7It looks like on this site, anyone can express an opinion of agreement with an up vote but only some who have earned it are allowed to express they disagree by using a down vote. Anyone can comment though.
No matter how many karma points you have, you can't downvote a story. You can only upvote or flag a story.
People do sometimes get their comments downvoted so I'm not sure what you are saying?
Re: Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user.
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
No matter how many karma points you have, you can't downvote a story. You can only upvote or flag a story.
People do sometimes get their comments downvoted so I'm not sure what you are saying?
I was talking about a link that you submit cu HN. You can't downvote that, the original question was related to a story (or a link) submitted to HN.
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#9It looks like on this site, anyone can express an opinion of agreement with an up vote but only some who have earned it are allowed to express they disagree by using a down vote. Anyone can comment though.
I believe at 500 points you can downvote comments.