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Re:An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as ra... by onion2k on Saturday May 25, 2019 @04:14PM (#20011083)
These are smart people, some of which have very high feedback here on HN.

All HN points mean is that more people on HN agree with you on a topic than disagree with you, or that you brought something the people here found interesting. They are in no way a proxy for smartness. There are some very intelligent and insightful posts by people with 10 HN points, and some completely dumb posts by people with around 16700 points.

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Re:An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as ra... by billforsternz on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:16PM (#20011491)
Well played sir, I was worried 16700 was a snarky put down to the person you were replying to, but actually it is a nicely self deprecating reference to yourself.
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Re:An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as ra... by mrec on Saturday May 25, 2019 @04:41PM (#20011273)
> more people on HN agree with you on a topic than disagree with you

They don't even mean that. There's a (500?) karma threshold for being able to downvote, whereas anyone can upvote.

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Re:An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as ra... by commoner on Saturday May 25, 2019 @04:44PM (#20011289)
Downvoting is available for accounts with at least 501 karma.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

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