A HN post with negative points – how?
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A HN post with negative points – how?
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Re: A HN post with negative points – how?
#2Now upvoted, but it was negative
Re: A HN post with negative points – how?
#3HN has downvotes but you need to have enough karma to access the feature.
Re: A HN post with negative points – how?
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Re: A HN post with negative points – how?
#5HN has downvotes but you need to have enough karma to access the feature.
Downvotes on comments need a little bit of karma. Now downvotes on submissions, those are not normally doable by random users.
Re: A HN post with negative points – how?
#6HN has the oddest karma system. I've seen submissions get 3 upvotes in the first minute and never another upvote.
Re: A HN post with negative points – how?
#7HN has downvotes but you need to have enough karma to access the feature.
Downvotes on comments need a little bit of karma. Now downvotes on submissions, those are not normally doable by random users.
right, I have reasonably high karma and I can't downvote submissions, although I can flag them.
Re: A HN post with negative points – how?
#8Original poster of the thread here.
Doesn't appear to be negative anymore, but here is what it looked like: https://vale.rocks/micros/20260512-0652
Screenshot was taken at 06:50 UTC.
Re: A HN post with negative points – how?
#9HN has downvotes but you need to have enough karma to access the feature.
Downvotes on comments need a little bit of karma. Now downvotes on submissions, those are not normally doable by random users.
Yea you can't downvote submissions.
Now, the post linked itself has been upvoted so it doesn't have negative submissions but it seems to have had been the case.
I don't quite understand how posts can have negative points :-/
A hunch but maybe a post which got confused as comment id of some other comment which got downvoted so you had negative karma, but I am unsure of this spooky action at a distance. It would be really interesting to know the reason behind it.
Re: A HN post with negative points – how?
#10HN has downvotes but you need to have enough karma to access the feature.
Downvotes on comments need a little bit of karma. Now downvotes on submissions, those are not normally doable by random users.
Perhaps some kind of auto-downranking system used for moderation of specific topics or thigns (without explicitly removing them) that accidentally targeted said post? Just idle speculation.