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Re:Ask HN: Who has downvote privileges and what is the crite... by tokenadult on Saturday July 30, 2011 @09:28PM (#2827318)
Any comment that has a downward change in score must have been downvoted. Can't you see the scores of your own comments? I thought each user could see his or her own comment scores when logged in.

In the extreme case, any user can tell if a comment has negative karma, because the comment starts to gray out. No comment receives downvotes for more than twenty-four hours.

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Re:Ask HN: Who has downvote privileges and what is the crite... by jaredsohn on Sunday July 31, 2011 @12:45AM (#2827651)
You are right that users can see scores for their own comments, but I it doesn't show the number of up and down votes (like slashdot, reddit, etc. do). The parent said he wasn't sure which among multiple recent comments was downvoted. It can also be a mystery if a user isn't constantly watching karma as it changes.
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Re:Ask HN: Who has downvote privileges and what is the crite... by dfc on Sunday July 31, 2011 @03:20AM (#2827849)
I actually noticed someones comment turning grey today but I did not know why. I do not think that is in the FAQ.

What does this mean:

"no comment receives downvotes for more than 24 hours."?

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Re:Ask HN: Who has downvote privileges and what is the crite... by ColinWright on Sunday July 31, 2011 @01:29PM (#2828904)
A comment turns grey when its points value goes to 0, and goes more grey as it goes more negative.

    "no comment receives downvotes for more than 24 hours."
This means that the downvote arrow is only visible/enables on a comment for 24 hours. Once a comment is more than 24 hours old you can no longer downvote it.
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Re:Ask HN: Who has downvote privileges and what is the crite... by dfc on Monday August 01, 2011 @02:00AM (#2830954)
So I recently had a comment downvoted in this thread about bitcoin's legal/regulatory environment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817899

I posted a link to a law review article and the link was downvoted. It does not make a lot of sense why...

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