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		dang on Feb 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors Not all upvotes count toward karma, for several reasons, mostly a composition of various anti-abuse measures.

chopin on Feb 23, 2018 [–]

I'd be interested to see which kind of abuse. As stated in my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442242 I am not knowingly participating in abusing behavior. So, if its not voting rings initiated by me, would it be voting rings initiated by others? Or posting topics which are mainstream on HN?

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