Bug? Or can you downvote stories on Hacker News?

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by gaika • 18 years ago

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gaika2• 18 years ago

Go to the new page and see the entry in question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=257108

hhm2• 18 years ago

I'm battling the temptation of upvoting it :)

LogicHoleFlaw• 18 years ago

No, it definitely earned that zero.

Alex39172• 18 years ago

The bug is that when you submit a story it doesn't automatically get voted up. Still no downvoting.

byrneseyeview• 18 years ago

I just submitted a story that immediately had an upvote. Under what conditions do stories not have an automatic upvote?

pg4• 18 years ago

Yes, looks like that's what happened. For some reason the submitter's initial upvote is not included in the votes of this story. I'm not sure how this happened.

You sound like you've seen this before. Have you?

run4yourlives• 18 years ago

I saw it earlier today... I added my upvote to sort it out. The only similarities were that both stories had no external urls... they were both questions to the community.

Ah, here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256760

dandelany• 18 years ago

I've been wondering about the point system too... Lots of comments have negative points, but I don't see how to downvote. Does downvoting require a certain amount of karma?

jmtulloss• 18 years ago

Yes, I think it's like 25 before you can downvote comments.

Oompa• 18 years ago

It's increased, I was hovering at 43 or so, without a down vote button. But then my karma jumped up to 73, and I can.

sfg• 18 years ago

I am on 25 and I cannot down vote comments. Is karma rating the only mechanism for restricting this?

paulgb2• 18 years ago

Kinda off-topic, but I noticed that you can't (or at least I can't) downvote direct replies to my own comments. I like this feature, but is it new or have I just never noticed it before?

aston• 18 years ago

You never noticed before.

paulgb2• 18 years ago

Thanks. I guess I'm not as observant as I thought.

fendale• 18 years ago

You need to get a certain karma before you can downvote comments. I think it was 100 before I could ...

pg4• 18 years ago

Ok, I just tracked down the bug and fixed it.

(It was in some new domain-banning code. The problem was that I was checking the domain even on url-less submissions, which caused an error between the point when the story was created and when it was upvoted by its submitter.)

Bug? Or can you downvote stories on Hacker News?

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