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It does affect you. Because you get the feeling you are "part" of the community.

I used to be very active in HN until I got into a heated discussion with someone and since then my HN "flag" privileges were stripped away.

I know I shouldn't care, but I couldn't help it. Now I am just lurking on HN and rarely reply with this new account using TOR and care as little about "karma" as I do about "producing value" with my replies to HN.

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Feel the same.

HN is exactly the same as Reddit, just a different crowd and less edge. It's nice to think that you can have a civil discussion on the HN platform but you can't. The whole internet karma/points is a flawed system.

For HN: You should have to give a reason to down votes. To give someone downvote permissions and then allow them to downvote on something they bias, isn't far.

> For HN: You should have to give a reason to down votes. To give someone downvote permissions and then allow them to downvote on something they bias, isn't far.

Because no one would ever lie or put noise in the "why I downvoted" field.

And In that case they don't get to down vote. Problem solved.

See downvoted already, point proven.

You can't detect lies.

I believe slashdot experimented with meta-moderation for that issue, but I actually never found out what came of that system.

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