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Comment by ars | Hacker News Reader

I do think about it, but I never let it stop me.

But a few times I've been surprised (both ways) by the karma score, so either I don't fully know the "group think" here - or there isn't one.

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I don't think there is a 'group think'

I've been knocked down quite hard with a karma score and had someone reply to my comment with what I had just said, and get voted up like crazy. And some days I'll get negative karma for something that got positive the day before.

HN is filled with Bipolar people.

It would be interesting to see if comment karma scores changed by hiding the score from your view before you upvoted someone. That would eliminate "groupthink" because you would not know how many other people voted for a comment until after you upvoted (or waived your right to upvote).

I don't think there is a 'group think'

HN is filled with Bipolar people.

"HN is filled with Bipolar people." -- No. You cannot upvote a comment you previously downvoted. HN is filled with people that maintain a variety of opinions.

Man, when something is potentially ironic, it's really confusing whether it is intentional or not. Oh well, I all ready voted as if it were intentional. Sorry mikeyur.

Why do people feel the need to continue voting down a comment like this that is below 0? Clearly mikeyur made a mistake (HN could very easily prevent these types of mistakes). Voting it down to 0 seems sufficient.

How do you vote down? Or does that require enough karma? I only see the vote up arrow.

Just like changing your top bar color, it is a reward when your karma goes up.

The level to receive down-vote ability is around 50, I believe.

Changed to 100 by February 2009.

Sorry guys, I guess I accidently hit 'reply' twice. My bad. Don't kill me too much.

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