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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 kergonath »

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 ...)

I downvote obvious fallacies and bad faith. And people who fan the flames in a thread. I don’t downvote posts because I disagree with them, but that’s just me. (I don’t upvote because I agree either)

Overall, it is common to see greyed posts downvoted for questionable reasons, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dead post that did not deserve it. So overall it seems to work and I avoid overthinking it.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by ColinWright »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #38
john_strinlai wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the interesting part here is that it is a submission with negative karma, not a comment. there is no downvote button on submissions, so it doesnt make sense for it to get negative karma.

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.

FWIW: I have over 135K karma and I can't downvote submissions.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by ColinWright »

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.

[flagged]

I think you are mistaken.

FWIW: I have over 135K karma and I can't downvote submissions.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #22

Bots. I've posted many popular and unpopular takes here. Down always comes first, and as the bot votes evap into the ether, the true human take is almost always revealed after an hour or two.

According to tomhow, there isn't and there isn't going to be one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46298942

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by thunderbong »

fortran77 wrote: post #44
john_strinlai wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the interesting part here is that it is a submission with negative karma, not a comment. there is no downvote button on submissions, so it doesnt make sense for it to get negative karma.

[flagged]

Nope

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by tstrimple »

registeredcorn wrote: post #53
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.

(Open question to anyone reading this) I've been meaning to ask for quite a while now: What exactly is "flag" supposed to indicate? I assume it's something more specific than "dislike". I take it to mean something along the lines of, "I think this is (sneaky) spam", or "This does not fit on a technology news site, even tangentially.". Or, perhaps something broader like, "I can't describe what the problem is, but this…

Regardless of the intended purpose. The most common use case is super dislike.

Re: A HN post with negative points – how?

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

whilenot-dev wrote: post #61
1970-01-01 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

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

Whatever it is, the bots learned it and they actively exploit it, hence this entire post.
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