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You can't post links? I always considered you part of the HN elite... What happened?
Judge for yourself. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jacquesm Definitely not a part of any elite.
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> I lost flagging privileges, it's not binary. You can lose some ability without getting (shadow)banned. How do you find out about that? Doesn't the 'flag' link show up anymore?
I can't down vote. Only the up arrow shows for me. Not that i mind I wouldn't down vote anyway. Ignoring is down voting in my book.
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I guess so. I think it disappeared after I flagged a lot of comments in one thread, but I'm not really sure (and it happened a few years ago).
AFAIK there's no "flag" on comments, just stories (conversely, there's no downvotes for stories, just comments). Or maybe I just don't have enough karma to see it (or I lost it long ago). An other weird thing about HN: sometimes I can't see the "reply" link on a comment for a while, even if I reload. Like, I wanted to reply to your post earlier but I couldn't even though ch0wn had already posted his own. I don't unde…
There's (almost) always a reply box when you click the
comment's permalink. So if you click "link" instead of
"reply," you're still good.
You have to admire the psychology of this particular post. It reminds me of the infamous reddit post "Test post. Please ignore." No doubt the exceptionally high score for this post is primarily down to folk upvoting to check if they have the same problem.
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I can still flag things - both posts and comments. Could your flagging history be perceived as excessive?
Strangely enough I can flag posts but not comments.
EDIT: Flag only appears when you go to reply to a comment. Corrected :)
I lost flagging privileges, it's not binary. You can lose some ability without getting (shadow)banned. How do you know your upvotes don't count? Who knows, maybe there's a karma threshold for that too now.
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There is flag on both submissions and comments. There is downvote on comments, but not on submissions. The "Reply" link is deliberately delayed on deep threads to help mitigate flame wars. These are all well-known features.
well-known in the scholarly sense, not in the everyday sense. While we're at it, for fun: http://io9.com/5880128/what-scientists-say-in-research-paper...
You have to admire the psychology of this particular post. It reminds me of the infamous reddit post "Test post. Please ignore." No doubt the exceptionally high score for this post is primarily down to folk upvoting to check if they have the same problem.
Lol, that seems to be an unintended consequence. I was just really confused.
*might... because no-one seems to know how it actually works.