[dang]

Yes. Edit: Well, it means the users who repeatedly upvote crap comments eventually have their votes ignored.

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

By 'crap' I mean something not as subjective as that sounds, which you can gather by reading those links and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

[marksomnian]

Aha, thank you. You learn something new about this site every day. Sometimes I wonder just how many robots (and humans) there are, ensuring that these discussions don't fill with crap.

/me tips hat

[daveguy]

Is there any way to identify whether or not our upvotes or downvotes are being ignored? Any way to get feedback on whether hackernews thinks our personal opinions are worthwhile?

[dang]

You can always email [e-mail] and ask. But I don't like this phrasing: "our personal opinions are worthwhile". Try "violate the site guidelines". That's still subjective, but it's not as if we're trying to pick market winners. About that we really don't care, except maybe when it comes to APL.