I am new account here, Is it not OK to like everything?

Question

I like the comments/submission so I click the up arrow. But it does nothing... nobody sees it... is this just HN saying upvotes don't matter or is it broken or is it because im a new account... etc. it seems like a weird way to do things if its intentional, is there a reason?

techdragon · Accepted Answer

The upvotes are aggregated (and I believe weighted for new accounts) it’s not being ignored, just factored into a larger algorithm.
I’m also happy to see I’m not the only one who is liberally using the upvote button. I probably upvote one or two dozen comments out of every hundred I read. HN is a forum full of good well thought out input that I want to reward!
I’ve certainly never seen any indication that it’s “not ok” to like heaps of comments or stories.

samstave · Answer

They dont matter to you or to anyone else aside from the person that you upvote.
They see it.
And it matters for them, as does the same if you flag a post because if youre flagged (like I often am when I post with emotions) -- they will get a "you're posting too fast" alert which prevents them from posting too quickly (although the cooldown for this punishment is BS too long @ dang ;-) )
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Though HN is prolly one of the best forums n the internet, if youre into this type of content...
Reddit, funded by YC, can go fuck itself over the literal censor cancelling bs it has gone through ever since receiving all that investment by [country we love with money but hate with words]

chatmasta · Answer

Also see: "A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors" [0][0] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

PaulHoule · Answer

There is no visible score on comments unless you wrote the comment.