Ask YC: Number of votes on news/links on the front page declining?

[lemonysnicket]

There seem to be less and less upmods on the news items on the front page, even those which stay for days.

Personally, I almost never even bother to upmod, and I only log in when I want to leave a comment, yet I used to upmod stories all the time.

Is this a trend?

[ScottWhigham]

It certainly isn't b/c of my habits. I use Firefox+GreaseMonkey with the YCFix script that hides your upmodded items. Every time I visit HN, I upmod every single item so that I don't see it again lol.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8242

[zacharye]

Personally, my ratio of upmodding comments to original submissions is probably 20:1. I'm always more interested in conversation and the value individuals here bring to it. Maybe others are developing similar habits?

[shutter]

I've noticed that too.