[Paracompact]

> People have made accounts just to downvote me.

How can you tell?

[AndrewKemendo]

A greentext username with 10 minute old account, zero karma and 1 comment that comment being something negative in response usually

There was an example months ago but I don’t keep track of the specifics

[aspenmayer]

Accounts with zero karma don’t have the ability to downvote comments.

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

> After users reach 501 Karma, they gain the ability to downvote another comment.

[AndrewKemendo]

Ah good point, well they sign up to say nasty stuff at least