minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented on Hacker News

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi... Vouching and flagging are both granted at 31 karma.

comment by vulcan01 · 2022-01-23 · in Ask HN: What if submitting a story cost 1 karma?

…moderators can also invite users via email to resubmit a post which didn't get much traction. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#second...

comment by frosted-flakes · 2022-01-14 · in In Praise of Search Tools

…think it's currently 500. Here's an unofficial FAQ that give more information about the thresholds: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

comment by nkurz · 2022-01-12 · in Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage

You need 501 karma for downvoting. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...

comment by KindOne · 2022-01-02 · in Ask HN: Why can't I downvote? I've been a member for over 10 years

You can find the details here: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...

comment by harha · 2022-01-02 · in Ask HN: Why can't I downvote? I've been a member for over 10 years

According to https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi... it's 31.

comment by gs17 · 2022-01-02 · in Ask HN: Why is Hacker News flagging any negative conversations about vaccine?

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented is useful in figuring out these undocumented karma limits.

comment by vulcan01 · 2022-01-01 · in Poll: Did you know that HN allows you to make polls?

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by kingcharles · 2021-12-15 · in Ask HN: What kind of a downvoter are you?

…few features that are undocumented on the website probably! But some of them are mentioned here: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented One of the few issues that I've faced is pagination of the comments and occasionally…

comment by fatboy93 · 2021-12-10 · in Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2021-12-09 · in Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented green = new account; orange means YC founders

comment by jareklupinski · 2021-11-12 · in I Got Fired from Amazon as a Software Development Engineer

Specifically > 500: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by mkl · 2021-10-28 · in Open secrets about Hacker News

A collaborative resource with more information about undocumented/norms on HN: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented > Personally, I’d stay at 3. I’d also wait at least a day between re-posts (and try re-posting at…

comment by capableweb · 2021-10-28 · in Open secrets about Hacker News

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2021-10-13 · in Why HN is the way it is, and why we hope it will stay that way

…I'm still somewhat new at the mechanics of HN's voting system, but more info can be seen here: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#shadow...

comment by 0des · 2021-10-09 · in The American Bumblebee Has Vanished from Eight States

…vouch for too many comments that break site guidelines, you’ll have the vouch feature taken away. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356579

comment by toomuchtodo · 2021-10-09 · in America’s unemployed are sending a message: Safety and compensation matter

…they don't seem to rely on tracking to target any narrower audience than the whole HN userbase). https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#percei...

comment by boogies · 2021-09-30 · in Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018)

You need 501 karma https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...

comment by david_allison · 2021-09-26 · in AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by blondin · 2021-09-15 · in Ask HN: Is there a point to HN points?

You need to have karma above a certain threshold. It used to be > 500 (not sure what it currently is) https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...

comment by madars · 2021-09-09 · in The code that controls our money

read https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by type0 · 2021-09-06 · in Ask HN: Testing?

Also see "A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors": https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by tbran · 2021-09-02 · in Show HN: HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your HN profile

Yes: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#shadow...

comment by Qub3d · 2021-08-26 · in Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people

…FAQ): please also consider page: https://news.ycombinator.com/invited as reported by the unofficial https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by mdp2021 · 2021-08-15 · in Programming Idioms

…Blizzard/Activation where this implicit downranking didn’t happen. I want to see more of that. 1: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#implic...

comment by runarberg · 2021-08-14 · in Amazon will monitor workers' keystrokes to 'combat data theft'

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m... 501 apparently

comment by Akronymus · 2021-07-28 · in Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It

…monopolies law being the right tool to fix it... Edit2: I think this is the page I mentioned above https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by LatteLazy · 2021-07-22 · in Autonomy founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US

Some stuff is not documented, /launches is one of them. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented The launches page is in this section: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...

comment by KindOne · 2021-07-19 · in Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues... It's not totally clear about how this works. It looks like I've been shadowbanned from making new posts at least temporarily, since when I tried to make a new post yesterday I…

comment by f38zf5vdt · 2021-06-28 · in An announcement about the comment section

…and I have learned stuff reading through it. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867142 2: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#implic...

comment by runarberg · 2021-05-05 · in The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think

This may be the unseen hand of the moderator. See the 'second chance pool': https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

comment by silasdavis · 2021-04-24 · in Intel Internet Party Line (1997)

…is listed at /pool? I haven't seen that one. Edit: found it, it's probably the second chance pool: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#second...

comment by TheAdamAndChe · 2021-04-20 · in Product-focused and sales-focused companies

I guess because it's mostly tutorials, which are downranked: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downra...

comment by yamrzou · 2021-04-19 · in A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues...

comment by toomuchtodo · 2021-04-19 · in A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

…information that may not be 100% accurate. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html [2] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by LinuxBender · 2021-04-19 · in Ask HN: How does the account rank penalty work here?

> https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#implic... Disagree with this section, especially since it is basically presenting an opinion as fact in the same class as other verifiable facts on this post. My own anecdote, but I…

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2021-04-19 · in A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

…you wish to do so. Regarding anything else about how Hacker News works, I found this quite useful: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

comment by not_knuth · 2021-04-14 · in The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (2009)

…floor -4 for a comment, not zero as they suggest Correct, -4 is the lowest a comment can go: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by oceliker · 2021-04-14 · in The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (2009)

…where we can look for? Yes there is an un-official list of undocumented hacker news features: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by ibraheemdev · 2021-03-15 · in HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2009)

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m... has some details on flagging and vouching. Your account is below 31 karma so you don't see the links/features in the user interface yet. Besides users there's only two people…

comment by mtmail · 2021-02-14 · in Ask HN: How does moderation work on Hacker News?

…the dump (plus the old tweet is no longer available) so maybe @dang will re-up[0] it later on. 0: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#second...

comment by judge2020 · 2021-02-03 · in Intel leak: 20GB of source code, chipset design and Intel Management Engine (ME)

For those interested in more similar things, there is an unofficial FAQ by minimaxir: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flame-... Also, for future readers, the numbers and exact criteria may change without warning.…

comment by gus_massa · 2021-01-22 · in More heat than light: The HN “Flame War” detector

A bit meta on the meta, but here it is: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by type0 · 2021-01-15 · in Hacker News

…I've tried to see if this bit of info can be added to the HN repo maintained by Max Wolf. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues...

comment by ayewo · 2021-01-15 · in Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by toomuchtodo · 2021-01-13 · in I Downvoted Because

…here (not with dates, but you can get an idea of when things change based on the commit history): https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented The most recent change I remember was when Twitter and GitHub posts were split based on…

comment by easton · 2021-01-04 · in Ask HN: Is HN slow today?

31. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

comment by mtmail · 2020-12-31 · in Ask HN: Karma Requirements

…with the "edit" one, in the two hour window, but you can't delete if the comment has replies. See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#editde...

comment by mkl · 2020-12-30 · in In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops

Karma limits what site functionality is available to a user. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

comment by SurfingInVR · 2020-12-30 · in Ask HN: Why can't I flag comments, but others can?

It’s a karma of 501 not 500 to downvote. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

comment by ayewo · 2020-12-22 · in Ask HN: Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer