Ask HN: Why votes here are counted at half, and I am always “posting too fast”

Posted by BravoCo on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:29PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Why is this system so messed up? At least on Reddit, a vote is a vote. Here, it takes 3 or 4 to count as one. And I am constantly being told that I am posting too fast. What is wrong with this system?

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Re:Ask HN: Why votes here are counted at half, and I am alwa... by mattmanser on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:34PM (#15971738)

Stop the "Awesome" and "Thanks" replies, they're getting you down-votes.

HN is a bit different to reddit, replies should advance discussions or ask questions at least vaguely on topic. Saying you're adding it to your Chrome read me later will be down voted by other users.

If you like something, just upvote it, no need to say you like it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why votes here are counted at half, and I am alwa... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @07:01PM (#15965728)

New accounts have limits imposed (your account name is green, signal of account age [12 days old]).

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Re:Ask HN: Why votes here are counted at half, and I am alwa... by mtmail on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:40PM (#15964582)

Email [email protected], they're quite responsive.

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Re:Ask HN: Why votes here are counted at half, and I am alwa... by dozzie on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:37PM (#15965099)

That is, if they ever see the e-mail. They're hosted on Gmail, which tend to mark e-mail from smaller mail servers as spam.

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Re:Ask HN: Why votes here are counted at half, and I am alwa... by malux85 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:44PM (#15966590)

Because 99.999% of email from smaller email servers is spam

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