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Re:Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We... by whatusername on Sunday December 06, 2009 @07:32PM (#980422)
The problem is that then downvote is for spam/junk. Why would I want to suffer a penalty to make the site better for others (I've already seen the spam).
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Re:Welcome to HN. Please, read 'Hacker News Guidelines.' We... by rbanffy on Monday December 07, 2009 @07:24AM (#981073)
You would make the site better for yourself in the future. You can also use the flag link to mark things that are utterly offensive.
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