| ▲ | EtienneK an hour ago |
| 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). |
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| ▲ | octoberfranklin 18 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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