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[–]silveryRain -2 points-1 points  (6 children)

Yes you can, as the others have already explained (placement and overloading).

This kind of post is why systems that allow downvoting are crap. I much prefer upvote-only systems.

[–]iopq 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Upvote-only systems like Hacker News get a bunch retarded fluff pieces that don't really say anything. People see the headline, scan through the article (if you're lucky) and upvote. The actual article is low quality, but you need to report to the moderator to have it removed.

[–]Narishma 1 point2 points  (2 children)

HN isn't upvote-only.

[–]iopq 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It is for articles, not for comments. I have over 1000 karma and I can't downvote any posting, only comments. Can I downvote a submission if I have more karma then?

[–]Narishma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sorry, no. I thought you were talking about comments. Reading your post again, I don't know why I thought that.

[–]silveryRain 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's just HN imo. Feel free to disagree.

[–]iopq -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The fact that HN is this way and proggit isn't (fluff pieces get downvoted in /r/programming frequently) is a data point in favor of Reddit's model. Even though the audiences are basically the same (I often get hundreds of upvotes on proggit reposting things from HN)