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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico ... by marksomnian on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:15AM (#15449923)
What does downweighting mean? Is it that users who upvote that comment have their votes mean less, or?
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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico ... by dang on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:19AM (#15449960)
Yes. Edit: Well, it means the users who repeatedly upvote crap comments eventually have their votes ignored.

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

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

By 'crap' I mean something not as subjective as that sounds, which you can gather by reading those links and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico ... by marksomnian on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:25AM (#15449987)
Aha, thank you. You learn something new about this site every day. Sometimes I wonder just how many robots (and humans) there are, ensuring that these discussions don't fill with crap.

/me tips hat

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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico ... by daveguy on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:36AM (#15450089)
Is there any way to identify whether or not our upvotes or downvotes are being ignored? Any way to get feedback on whether hackernews thinks our personal opinions are worthwhile?
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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for VR cartoon tour of Puerto Rico ... by dang on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:39AM (#15450118)
You can always email [email protected] and ask. But I don't like this phrasing: "our personal opinions are worthwhile". Try "violate the site guidelines". That's still subjective, but it's not as if we're trying to pick market winners. About that we really don't care, except maybe when it comes to APL.
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