Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal

Re:Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existi... by moffkalast on Sunday May 01, 2022 @06:49AM (#31223894)

Hm, interesting. I suppose it does prevent mass bot downvotes, but it also stops the community from pre-emptively removing posts such as this one that just stir up rage. Reddit would probably be unreadable without post downvotes.

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Re:Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existi... by gk1 on Sunday May 01, 2022 @07:26AM (#31224103)

Users can flag posts, which is kind of like a super-downvote. HN also penalizes posts that generate too many comments too fast, which it interprets as controversial.

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Re:Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existi... by Brian_K_White on Sunday May 01, 2022 @07:48AM (#31224232)

Flagging would be an abuse of another feature. I don't think the original post is quite wrong as in illegal or harmful or off topic.

The commenter here's upvote counted, my downvote did not count.

And I won't just use any other available form of attack like falsely accusing the post of some wrongdoing just because I want to criticise something and that's the only way to do it.

I did leave a critical comment but that is a seperate issue because you can leave a positive comment and upvote. So the ability to comment nulls out.

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