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Re:New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity by InclinedPlane on Friday April 03, 2015 @05:26PM (#9318661)
One thing I like about stackexchange is how downvoting has a cost. I'd like to see downvoting on HN cost the person doing the voting at least 1 karma, maybe 2, maybe even 5 or 10.
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Re:New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity by MollyR on Friday April 03, 2015 @05:56PM (#9318835)
yea, that's a good idea. I would back this idea.

It would prevent people from hunting down someone, and downvoting all of the posts without penalty just because they didn't like them.

Though I'm not sure how much of a problem that is here.

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