how the hell does paywalled content possibly get upvoted more than downvoted. are there really that many economist.com subscribers here?

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SkyeCA an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Most people read the headlines and nothing more, the same as with any other aggregator.

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gertlex 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

Guilty... but also, I think about article up/downvotes an order of magnitude less than I click the links. I wonder what fraction of users do voting without clicking links.

	▲	jdprgm 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Up voting or down voting without even clicking the link just seems insane to me. I think the stats on interactions across the board are probably ridiculous though. I wish for a HN, reddit, etc, where you have to vote and comment to even be served more content.

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EtienneK an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can’t downvote submissions on HN.

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shinryuu an hour ago | parent | next [-]

What happens is that people flag content instead.

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bezier-curve an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Actually, you can't unless you meet a karma threshold. I have been on this site for 6 years and I still haven't reached it because my opinions are too controversial (apparently).

	▲	octoberfranklin 19 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not controversial. Just not aligned with the owners of HN. The comments you upvote/downvote are used to calculate your "opinion similarity" to the owners. Then your upvote/downvotes are modulated by that similarity. It's a way of using other humans to amplify the opinions of the owners -- they don't have time to read all the comments, so instead they filter out those who think the same way they do and let them do it.
	▲	jraph an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You can't downvote submissions, regardless your karma.

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totetsu an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

All my AI agents know how to circumvent paywalls, silly human just cant keep up