Ask YC: Number of votes on news/links on the front page declining?

There seem to be less and less upmods on the news items on the front page, even those which stay for days.

Personally, I almost never even bother to upmod, and I only log in when I want to leave a comment, yet I used to upmod stories all the time.

Is this a trend?

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shutter 17y ago ↗

I've noticed that too.

zacharye 17y ago ↗

Personally, my ratio of upmodding comments to original submissions is probably 20:1. I'm always more interested in conversation and the value individuals here bring to it. Maybe others are developing similar habits?

ScottWhigham 17y ago ↗

It certainly isn't b/c of my habits. I use Firefox+GreaseMonkey with the YCFix script that hides your upmodded items. Every time I visit HN, I upmod every single item so that I don't see it again lol.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8242