Hacker News Reader

The first thing this has me thinking is that it looks like a "subreddit" of HN. I'm surprised to not have seen or heard of a Reddit style site with HN voting rules on it.

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HN voting rules? I thought reddit used the exact same voting system as HN.

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.

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

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

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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