Comment by splawn
9 years ago
I bet whoever has the top comment on this one is going to see their karma go up and down as everyone tests out the unvote and undown feature. :)
9 years ago
I bet whoever has the top comment on this one is going to see their karma go up and down as everyone tests out the unvote and undown feature. :)
Tested upvote, worked.
Tested undo upvote, worked.
Tested downvote, worked.
My testing is complete.
I followed your testing instructions on your comment. Test passed.
new user so pardon my ignorance but I dont have a downvote button. Do I need to enable it somewhere?
You need a certain amount of karma to downvote. I think it's 500, but I'm not sure because I don't have that much yet. :)
Edit: it's confirmed at 501: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074198
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You need to have a certain amount of karma before you can downvote comments. I'm not sure what the threshold is these days.
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There is a karma limit (of ~500) to get downvote privileges.
you need to have a certain amount of karma (number next to your account) for the downvote function to be available.
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You need a certain Troll Level.
No, you generally don't get to downvote in HN until your karma is above some threshold that changes occasionally.
I went for iterations - up, down, up, down, up, down. So it seems to track. I left an upvote to make sure it stuck when I come back in a few hours to revisit.
Now put that in a loop to see if they have any memory leaks :)
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So was the final state of your vote down or did you change it afterwards? Did you test attempting to upvote twice in a row, downvote twice in a row, etc? :)
There is a bug after you undo your vote for the 500th time :)
I can repro this. Thank you for the instructions.
when does one get down vote power? edit: never mind i read below.
You can downvote?? Are you a wizard?
nice username, i love memes too!
Finally! I tested on you :) The upvote is awesome, there have many times over the years I've mistakingly hit the up/down and wished for a redo.
I wanted to upvote that comment and so I did!
Then later I changed my mind because really, it deserved a downvote.
Anger passed and facing the consequences of my actions I was nothing but a broken man. I brought back equilibrium and removed that downvote.
This is when I realized that the timing was perfect for a self-centered comment.
This comment made me want to test the reply. When there is a mighty wind, two cheeks are funnier than one.
I tested it on you, and left the upvote. :)
I'm having fun refreshing your profile page and watching your karma jump around.
Wow that is quite impressive jumping. Sometimes I forget how many people lurk on HN.
Same lol.
1314, 1313, 1311, 1314....
GP's karma is in the 1500's now. Wow that's a great comment.
When it settles down you have to tell us how many upvotes you ended up with on this. I tested back and forth several times and left you with an upvote. Your karma was about 200 less last time I checked!
I can't downvote. How much Karma do I need to activate it?
I'm at 495 and can't downvote.
Quick, 5 people upvote me and I'll tell you if it kicks in.
OK, at exactly 501 you get a little down arrow (doesn't appear at 500).
dang already confirmed it below, but at least I got to feel like a camgirl for 5 minutes.
Thanks for playing!
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I got my downvote ability at around 550 or so...
For me it was 500.
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I have 117 and can downvote.
Are you certain? Maybe you are thinking of the 'collapse' button, which is represented by a minus sign?
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500 AFAIK
400 or 500 points, I forgot which. Maybe someone with something between those two can tell?
Don't know for sure but empirically it's more than 450.
Voted up. Saw the "unvote", didn't click it. I believe Hacker News has tested the functionality. I'll leave the upvote. Here's to you splawn.
I failed unvote by tapping on collapse link
Haha, looking at your profile page, your comment karma is increasing at about 20 upvotes / min
A pessimist would see their karma go down, then back up -- maybe.
I actually did that before reading this comment. :)
I think we really just need to test that down-voting works. But I almost never use down-votes so I'll leave that up to the "crowd".
It's you :-)