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Re:I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvo... by angusgr on Thursday April 28, 2011 @06:54PM (#2495475)
I think they mean "not voting but still being able to see how people voted on that particular comment"
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Re:I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvo... by allwein on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @02:45PM (#2511155)
About 4 seconds after that feature was implemented, someone would write a greasemonkey script that clicks all the abstain buttons for an HN article.
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Re:I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvo... by angusgr on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @06:07PM (#2511839)
If you choose to run that script then you're choosing to not vote at all (assuming votes can't be changed, which they can't now.) Which means you can't contribute to the "social confirmation up/down vote pile-on" problem either. So that particular problem would remain solved.
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