Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by y03a on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:44PM (#16439482)

HA! That made me think of what might be an interesting feature on a forum, if the parent gets downvoted, all the children do as well. Might prevent feeding trolls or expanding off-topic conversations.

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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by duskwuff on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:52PM (#16440802)

Would also punish users for posting rebuttals to controversial or factually incorrect posts. I feel like that's a net negative.

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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by brokenmachine on Friday February 23, 2018 @12:57AM (#16444546)

That's sort of what happens on reddit.

Often I feel it's not worth replying to obviously wrong stuff because it'll just get downvoted so low that nobody's likely to see my eloquent and carefully-worded rebuttal anyway.

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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by abraae on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:07PM (#16440917)

Perhaps an additional feature to explicitly mark your post as "rebuttal"? Then only the non-rebuttals would inherit the downvote?

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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by duskwuff on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:18PM (#16442030)

And why would users not simply mark all of their posts as rebuttals? There'd be no downside.

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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by abraae on Friday February 23, 2018 @12:01AM (#16444358)

Because rebutting something that was subsequently upvoted would incur a downvote!

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