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A comment on Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors. Parent comment

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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