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Comment by darkchasma | Hacker News Reader

There is a reason there are controls to allow you to upvote, or downvote stories. If you don't like a story, and have nothing to contribute to the story, downvote it. If the story is in the top few, it's because people (that aren't you) are interested in knowing that github is getting attacked.

EVERYTHING is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

Edit: Heh, there are no downvotes on HN for stories. My bad.

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OT: How much karma do I need to have to see the downvote button?

There is no downvote button on submissions only upvote and flag.

Should there be downvote buttons for submissions?

Maybe? I could go both ways. I think downvoting is important but it's also very easily abused. I like stackexchange's downvoting system where it comes at a cost.

It is, or was, 500 points.

The downvote on users only appeared for me as I pushed past about 650 I believe.

> If you don't like a story, and have nothing to contribute to the story, downvote it.

You should try doing this because I don't think it actually exists.

I do understand why the hackernews crowd is interested in the status of github. What I don't understand is why those same people don't know about status.github.com and @githubstatus already.

If github is a critical piece of your infrastructure, add a couple of bookmarks and never be in the dark again.

Good point on the existence of the down vote functionality, I've amended my comment above.

To your other points though, Github being DDoSed is something I would like to know about, but does not happen so frequently that I should bookmark the status page and check it every hour to see if someone is DDoSing them. That's rather absurd.

Wouldn't you just check it if github seemed to be having problems?

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