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Comment by quitit | Hacker News Reader

Reddit has the petty bonus of people going down your comment chain and downvoting it.

The site would benefit from listing who upvotes and downvotes each post/comment. That would sort out a lot of the abuse issues long before other ideas such as real identities.

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You are not able to go through a persons profile and downvote on people's posts. It looks like it from the UI, however it doesn't persist those votes. It may be capturing your attempt though.

To do that you have to visit each and every post and downvote it.

And even if you click through to the actual posts, there's a fairly low limit on the number of times you can downvote a specific person per day before it stops counting.

I would love to read through a source code leak. I have wasted so much of my 20s on that god forsaken site. Now im in my mid 30s and occasionally reminiscence about how innocent I thought it was back in 2010. It is garbage now and it was garbage back than, we just didn't know. In my mind, I actually hold Digg in higher regard just because they never made it to the point where it became a net negative on the world. You know what they say: you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain or something like that.

Reddit used to be open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

I'd argue this code is so old that it probably bears little resemblance to current Reddit. I know this was used by right wingers when they made that alternative Trump Reddit. That Reddit was awesome (minus the actual content) because it took me back in time to the "good ol days" of Reddit.

I really want to see the current algorithms being used in the codebase. The rest is just shitty code written by overpaid monkeys.

> To do that you have to visit each and every post and downvote it.

I'm sure there are some redditors petty enough to actually do that.

There are. But their impact and likelihood to be that persistence probably raises flags.

> The site would benefit from listing who upvotes and downvotes each post/comment.

I used site with this rule few years ago. It results in immediate downvote of other post/comments (or group of posts/comments) of user that downvoted your comment. And also public shaming, and long comment threads with arguments "why you downvoted me?".

I started to think that its really very hard to fix social issue with some technological solution.

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