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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Classics by ZenoArrow on Friday February 23, 2018 @01:56AM (#16444725)
You can't downvote posts on HN, you can flag them but you can't downvote them. On HN, downvoting is only possible on comments.
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Classics by bringtheaction on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:35AM (#16445000)
You are right I forgot that, heh. Anyway, the problem remains that over time there will be more people to upvote so a post is likely to get more points if it was posted in the future than in the past.
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Classics by fghtr on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:59AM (#16445340)
Not really. Just tried to upvote an old post from 10 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243417

As a result, its score did not increase, although upvoting "worked".

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Classics by bringtheaction on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:59AM (#16445559)
No I mean that a front page post five years ago had fewer people to vote on it so it would get fewer points simply for that reason compared to a front page post today.
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