It'd be nice if voting was un-doable.
It's not 'pg anymore, BTW: it's 'dang and his team now.
It would be better to eliminate karma altogether.
Even worse, once you vote the UI doesn't even show which way you voted. Half the time I vote on mobile I don't even know if I voted the right way.
It's too bad that accidentally downvoting a comment means that you cannot ever save it in your profile.
Submissions can be upvoted, or they can be flagged. They can't be downvoted. No one confused the upvote button for the flag button.
Comments can be upvoted, or downvoted, or flagged. People sometimes mistake the up and downvote buttons.
> User X posts a news that gets 2 points in a few minutes. With point 3 the news would stay a few seconds in the home page, enough if it is interesting for other users to be upvoted and end stable in the home page.
This doesn't happen. People can't downvote submissions. Comments don't get ranked like that on /newcomments.
A more out-of-the-box solution to all of these problems is to have both comment order and story order be probabilistic rather than absolute, which could help guarantee everything enough visibility to get the fair compliment of upvotes/downvotes. But then again that is much more complicated than other potential solutions (assuming the problem is even large enough to care to fix).
up/down user time
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