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Re:Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN? by DanBC on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:50PM (#25596367)
Several people are suggesting that the graying is removed. How else will you know that a comment has been unfairly downvoted and needs a corrective upvote?

Upvotes are available to many more people than downvotes, so when a comment is downvoted and stays downvoted it means one person disagreed with it enough to downvote it, but many people read it and didn't think it deserved an upvote.

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Re:Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN? by underseacables on Thursday December 31, 2020 @03:37PM (#25596844)
Show the votes. Why were they hidden in the first place? You can see someone’s karma, it seems strange to hide comment vote numbers.
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Re:Ask HN: Should we eliminate downvoting on HN? by krapp on Thursday December 31, 2020 @03:42PM (#25596890)
I think karma should be hidden too.

Once you give people a number, they'll start to game that number, leading to low quality karma-farming comments. When a measure (in the case of karma, of quality) becomes a target, it ceases to become a good measure.

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