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Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by whilenot-dev »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #46
hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As stated elsewhere in this discussion: downvotes exist for comments on HN, but not for submissions, as far as anyone is aware, which is what makes it puzzling.

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Users aren't in agreement of the needed karma threshold for the downvote button to appear on submissions, though.

There seems to be a way through URL-params, as mentioned in another comment[0], but I'd consider that method an auth-related bug, rather than an existing downvote feature for submissions.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107572

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by nickthegreek »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #46
hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As stated elsewhere in this discussion: downvotes exist for comments on HN, but not for submissions, as far as anyone is aware, which is what makes it puzzling.

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Then they should show us a screenshot of the interface that allows it.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by nathanmills »

shevy-java wrote: post #35

On HN I almost never downvote. On reddit this was different. Not sure why but I feel that on HN karma is so much harder to get that I don't want to be an obstacle. On reddit I could more easily downvote. It also was easier to get karma. (Reddit is annoying with regards to its censorship though. That is one arbitrary censorship over there ...)

But that means more people will get enough karma to be able to downvote, and they likely won't share the same ideals as you so they will downvote more often, making it even harder than it already is for new users.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by tnelsond4 »

whilenot-dev wrote: post #60
tnelsond4 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the maximum value of a signed 16 bit integer. But there's a GitHub page that explains hn lore.

What HN-lore page are you referring to? This[0] one explicitly states: > Although submissions cannot be downvoted, [...] [0]: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...

I meant to reply to John who was asking where someone was getting the 32768 number from. No idea if it's true, but that's the significance of that number.

Yeah that's the lore page does look like there's no downvoting submissions then and people are just trolling.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by c22 »

belthesar wrote: post #41
jermaustin1 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always assumed there WAS downvoting for a submission once you hit a certain threshold of user karma. Like flagging and other community moderating functions.

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Are you able to downvote stories?

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by throwanem »

nathanmills wrote: post #63
Bender wrote: post #16

Someone should email dang as that would be a bug or a fundamental design change or a site compromise. hn@ycombinator.com

Someone? Who are we going to choose?

You needn't; I just did.

Mr. Gackle isn't really all that frightening, you know. There's no need to fear talking with him.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by c22 »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #62

This reminds me, I've wanted to make a bot to automatically upvote the most downvoted posts in a thread with the HN api. I'd call it anti-echochamber.HN or something like that.

I surf with showdead on and often find myself upvoting grey comments that don't seem factually incorrect or rude, perhaps just espousing an unpopular opinion. But man, a lot of grey comments are correctly moderated. I'd leave the most downvoted ones alone for sure.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by throwanem »

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.

Not at all related, but I love your work! Your photographs betray a subtle, curious, particular, and respectful eye. Keep shooting!
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