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I am just now realizing that HN comments are collapsible...I wonder if anyone has ever looked at upvote/scroll behavior when the collapse button is used vs not? There are a ton of threads where the top comment is also a non-sequitur, but I know when that happens I frequently don't scroll past the hundreds of replies to see what the other first level comments are.

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Okay. I'll bite. What is everyone talking about ?

I see an upvote triangle, a down vote [-] and nothing else. Is this a mobile only thing ? I can't see a way to collapse comments under Chrome or Safari on a desktop.

I am out of the loop what's the secret ?

[-] is not a downvote button, but the collapsing one.

TIL ... after years on HN.

For anyone else out of the loop like me: Where's the downvote button? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17731487

It's not available until you have a certain amount of karma. I think it's 500 or thereabouts.

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