> Be careful, sarcasm, facts, or the inconvenient truth can cause downvotes.
Is there a way to figure out a comment's ratio of upvotes to downvotes? Sometimes I see my comment's score oscillating...
Re:Ask HN: How to earn karma on HN?
by dredmorbius on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @01:54AM
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No.
This is, frankly, a really annoying aspect of many commenting systems. It's among the reasons I prefer range-based voting (say 1-5 scale) rather than up/down. On the back end it's possible to do some aggregate modeling that works out, for large numbers, somewhat equivalently, but this handles thin data poorly.
Be careful, sarcasm, facts, or the inconvenient truth can cause downvotes.
It is also very important, to always post in a manner which cannot insult a demographic (eg. Independent Thinkers™), unless the insulted demographic does not represent the The Right Opinion™ (eg. realists, conservatives, anti-globalists, Drumpf voters, law abiding tax paying majorities, especially males can always be insulted).