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stcredzero on May 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How exactly does Hacker News 'points' work...

flagging as downvoting' has been going on for a very long time, and this is logical because they have the exact same effect, in fact, a flag counts for roughly 10 downvotes by my estimates.

I wonder exactly how common this behavior is? It's basically data for a "douchebag census."

DanielBMarkham on May 28, 2014 [–]

Yeah, it's basically a royal F-U from some bozo. It doesn't fit the word "flagging", at least not in any sense that I understand it.

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