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0 pointsuntog13y ago0 comments

Not quite, no. You can't downvote stories (only comments, when you reach an appropriate karma level) and the algorithms for story/comment decay seem to be wildly different.

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rschmitty13y ago

Reddit downvoting is ridiculous at times. People just downvote whenever they see something they don't like or disagree with.

For example, anyone that dislikes {lang} will just downvote any {lang} article

Reading the {lang} article and downvoting it if it's just linkspam

untogOP13y ago

Hacker News isn't really that different- people flag the article instead of downvoting it, so it takes even fewer people to bury a story. It's happened more times than I can count.

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