[annadane]

Why the hell is HN so downvote happy?

[Exmoor]

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

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

[packthetop]

Copy+pasting the rules is even more boring, just move on

[Wowfunhappy]

I actually think it's good to have the community enforce/explain our standards from time to time, within reason. Dang can't see everything, and where he does it takes time to respond. Downvoting/flagging works too, but some may legitimately not know that they've broken a guideline.

[rd]

I feel like there's a relevant XKCD here about the irrelevance of commenting on irrelevance but I'm struggling to remember which.

[hyperdimension]

Well, it's not all that relevant to the conversation at hand, anyway... :)

[annadane]

Yes, but it's also clear that there's something very funny going on here, rules be damned

[UhDev]

Why can't I downvote?

[Wowfunhappy]

You need 501 karma.

[UhDev]

Thanks for answering my question instead of downvoting it!

[Shared404]

You may find this page helpful, I know I did (In the sense that it let me better understand what all was going on).

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

[tacocataco]

That 1 is triggering my OCD.

[Wowfunhappy]

Well, you could also phrase it as “You need more than 500 karma.” :)

[fortran77]

/r/LOLHackerNews