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Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by mrleiter on Thursday February 23, 2017 @03:30AM (#13712497)
Simply: this is not reddit. Voting happens based on the content of information added by your comment. Not a joke or a wordplay, unfortunately.
Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by pault on Thursday February 23, 2017 @03:01PM (#13717211)
I had to downvote you because we're not supposed to compare HN to reddit. ;)

Edit: Oops, I cancelled my downvote.

Re:Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 l... by grzm on Thursday February 23, 2017 @03:06PM (#13717251)
That's a misreading of the guidelines:

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html