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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by Nickersf on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:42PM (#13110501)
Comment voting is good to filter out spam/off topic and then sadly it can be used to create an echo chamber where dissenting opinions of all sorts gets shut down.
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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by tropo on Monday December 05, 2016 @06:10PM (#13110736)
Track up and down votes separately. To compute the effective score, square the number of up votes and then subtract the number of down votes.
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