Ask HN: Votes and edited comments

1 points by motxilo 15y ago ↗ HN

In the following scenario:

1) I vote up a comment. 2) Later on, the author of the comment edits its contents. 3) After such change, I don't consider the comment valuable as before anymore.

Shouldn't I be able to vote it down? In reality, I am asking if the positive/negative votes for a comment should be rolled back when the comment is edited. It makes sense to me that users vote for a comment in particular, not the future versions of it.

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nametoremember 15y ago ↗

Yes, there are a lot of things broken on HN but it works well enough and people use it so they probably won't get fixed.

pbhjpbhj 15y ago ↗

As things stand, no one else knows you upvoted it any way. Better just not to vote for anything, only downvote. It's possible that someone can change a negative comment to make it look bad that you downvoted it but it's a pretty edge case and HN only shows that a bunch of people downvoted something, not who.