Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by betterworldb on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:43PM
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Counting system sounds like Reddit voting system where 1 upvote != 1 vote
Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by thaumasiotes on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:51PM
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I can confirm that the minimum display score is -4 points regardless of the amount of karma lost on a comment.
Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by grzm on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:54PM
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I think what your parent is getting at is that you'll lose at most 4 karma regardless of how many downvotes a comment may eventually accumulate. At least in my experience I haven't seen my karma fall more than 4 points due to a single comment, as far as I can remember. Have you a different experience?
Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by thaumasiotes on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:06PM
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Yes, of course. Downvotes are not shown (past the 5th), but karma losses are. Just as described in my parent comment:
>> I’m at -4 for a comment and still my karma is dropping, how come?
Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by dang on Friday February 23, 2018 @01:24AM
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No, it doesn't do that. I think it did at one point, when we were experimenting, but it hasn't since at least March 2015.
Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by grzm on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:11PM
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Wow. How recently? IIRC, that faq (though helpful) is out of date in sections. I assumed that that was one of them.
Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
by thaumasiotes on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:22PM
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Not all that recently, but I see no reason to assume the behavior has changed.
According to the The Unofficial Hacker News FAQ [1] this is only partly correct, but I don‘t feel like testing it.
[1]
> I’m at -4 for a comment and still my karma is dropping, how come?
> HN is ‘subtle’ in that not everything always is what it seems. Votes are not always counted and those votes that are counted are not always displayed. So even though your vote count for that comment shows as -4, in actual fact it may be much lower. Take your lumps, analyze why you got those downvotes and if you feel they were justified then try to do better in the future. A side effect of the votes still being counted past -4 seems to be that people tend to delete their comments with a much higher frequency than in the past to cap the damage to their karma.
https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-unofficial-hn-faq#badcomment