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A HN post with negative points – how?

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Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

OuterVale wrote: post #8

Original 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.

Do you have any idea on what caused it?

https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=48104663

This seems to have gone to -10 and then went up according to this, which matches what your comment had said that you were seeing -10 on your android.

Edit: (actually it had gone all the way to -15) and seems that this website has been still stuck at -8 upvotes at the moment of this comment and this link has also been the proof for me to finally see/confirm this as the submission now has positive upvotes.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

#12

Post by helsinkiandrew »

paulnpace wrote: post #6

HN has the oddest karma system. I've seen submissions get 3 upvotes in the first minute and never another upvote.

> I've seen submissions get 3 upvotes in the first minute and never another upvote.

Is that people looking at the new page and seeing/upvoting your post and then it falls off the front.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by nomilk »

When I click on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN homepage (currently ranked 12 for me), it goes to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 instead of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316 (I found the latter via google search for the title string)

I suspect the same is happening for some others too, based on the comments on that article.

Bizarre!

Update: 2 minutes later and the link from the hn home page now correctly leads to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316

Never seen that happen before.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by OuterVale »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #11
OuterVale wrote: post #8

Original 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.

Do you have any idea on what caused it? https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=48104663 This seems to have gone to -10 and then went up according to this, which matches what your comment had said that you were seeing -10 on your android. Edit: (actually it had gone all the way to -15) and seems that this website has been still stuck at -8 upvotes at the moment of this comment and this link has also been the proof…

It is hardly a satisfying answer, but I haven't the foggiest what caused it. I submitted it the same as I've submitted many other submissions in the past.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by sebastianmestre »

nomilk wrote: post #15

When I click on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN homepage (currently ranked 12 for me), it goes to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 instead of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316 (I found the latter via google search for the title string) I suspect the same is happening for some others too, based on the comments on that article. Bizarre! Update: 2 minutes later and the link f…

This post you are commenting on (*6316) is a link post that points to the other one (*4663)

The normal behavior for link posts in HN is that the title takes you to the link address, not to the post address.

To enter the post address, you need to hit the "discuss"/"x comments" button.

So, what you describe is HN working as expected AFAICT, it's just a bit counterintuitive because it's an HN post linking to another, which is uncommon

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by Unai »

tux3 wrote: post #5
rzmmm wrote: post #3

HN 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.

That's correct AFAIK, submissions can't be downvoted.

If anyone's interested, here's a list of undocumented HN features/rules (although I don't know how up to date it is): https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

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