Comment by pdq

12 years ago

Here's a simple solution to this whole moderation hammer: add a downvote for poor comments (ala Reddit). The spam and garble comments will automatically be moderated by the community as a whole.

Turning HN into Wikipedia Moderation Politics is not a smart idea.

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elithrar  12 years ago

> Here's a simple solution to this whole moderation hammer: add a downvote for poor comments (ala Reddit).

There are down-votes. You just don't get the ability to down-vote until > ~500 karma (it may be a bit higher now).

corin_  12 years ago

There already is downvoting, it just isn't enabled until you hit a certain karma (I think 500, could be completely wrong as it's late and I'm tired)