Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again

Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by incompatible on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @10:52PM (#14699693)

It always sucks to have your insightful (in your own eyes at least) comments downvoted, just because there's a group of people who disagree with it. It's a downvote democracy, but not a true democracy because it only takes a minority to vote that way. I don't even have access to this downvote feature, I guess I don't have enough karma.

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by SyneRyder on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @05:07AM (#14700902)

If something is unfairly downvoted, wait a while and someone else will usually upvote it again.

But it's also worth remembering they're just internet points, there's no real value. Keep contributing good stuff & you'll eventually get past the 500 karma mark. After that it's just a vanity number.

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by DanBC on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:46AM (#14700579)

You do have access to the upvote button,so your vote can cancel out an unfair downvote.

Comments that get downvotes also don't get upvotes, so it's not just the small group who can downvotes who are causing the comments to be gray, it's also the large group who could upvotes but who chose not to do so.

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by hellbanner on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:16AM (#14699946)

Yeah, this too.

I was more lamenting the lousy comments eg. puns, comments that add nothing etc. These are possible with 0second old accounts.

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by greenyoda on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @11:33PM (#14699812)

Right, downvoting gets enabled when you hit 500 points, or so I remember.

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