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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 grzm on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:54PM (#16443812)
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?
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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by thaumasiotes on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:06PM (#16443871)
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?

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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by dang on Friday February 23, 2018 @01:24AM (#16444619)
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.
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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by grzm on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:11PM (#16443891)
Wow. How recently? IIRC, that faq (though helpful) is out of date in sections. I assumed that that was one of them.
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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by thaumasiotes on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:22PM (#16443941)
Not all that recently, but I see no reason to assume the behavior has changed.
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Re:Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by grzm on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:28PM (#16443959)
And you're probably as willing as I to test its current status :). Cheers for clarifying this for me.
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