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Re:Tell HN: A Recent Rise in Downvoting by fragmede on Sunday October 17, 2010 @11:48AM (#1800581)
Judging from your nick here, and slashdot allowing anonymous comments, I'm guessing you didn't have a user account on slashdot. I say that because you had to do was give 'funny' posts a -10, which would preclude you from seeing so-called funny posts. Though far from perfect, still consider the /. moderation system the gold standard for commenting and have yet to see anything come close. (Also, +1 funny mod got you no karma)
Re:Tell HN: A Recent Rise in Downvoting by anonymous236 on Sunday October 17, 2010 @12:59PM (#1800781)
Slashdot ID 3xxxxx, first post - Sep '01... but thanks for the info ;)
Re:Tell HN: A Recent Rise in Downvoting by DiabloD3 on Sunday October 17, 2010 @12:59PM (#1800782)
I have a four digit Slashdot UID. Those features didn't exist in the beginning. I have mine set to default settings, with "show only posts with a score of 5" on.

Tends to keep out most of the usual Slashdot bullshit without requiring me to take Slashdot out of my RSS reader altogether.