This prompted me to look. Could not find too much though I found this post suggesting that it can go negative.
I would assume at a certain point your account would be banned so maybe there is a cap. Personally I would be surprised if these folks had websites.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609
as mentioned, tdavis certainly deserves recognition on that front
reddit used to have a 'sort by most controversial' (iirc just downs plus ups) that bubbled the most interesting comments to the top, apparently they were going for types of users who weren't into that though
You can still sort by controversial on reddit. In my experience the comments it bubbles to the top aren't very interesting, but mostly cheap shots. Like everything else about reddit, this probably depends on the subreddit.
It looks like this profile is the current winner for most negative:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Proven
The TempleOS guy was probably one of the more memorable ones though you'd need showdead on to see a lot of the comments from his accounts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=templeos https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887
It's case sensitive: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=SparrowOS
Seeing his comments come up as 'dead' is a bit too apt.
This prompted me to look. Could not find too much though I found this post suggesting that it can go negative. I would assume at a certain point your account would be banned so maybe there is a cap. Personally I would be surprised if these folks had websites. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609
Yes, it does, although karma on any individual comment is capped at -4 and if you keep posting them you may have moderation action taken against you.
Your comments go auto-dead at a relatively small cumulative negative score so it's more of a robot moderator action.
as mentioned, tdavis certainly deserves recognition on that front
reddit used to have a 'sort by most controversial' (iirc just downs plus ups) that bubbled the most interesting comments to the top, apparently they were going for types of users who weren't into that though
You can still sort by controversial on reddit. In my experience the comments it bubbles to the top aren't very interesting, but mostly cheap shots. Like everything else about reddit, this probably depends on the subreddit.