Vladimir_Nesov comments on Posting now enabled - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 06 March 2009 10:58:38AM 3 points [-]

Why can't posts be downvoted into negative rating? I tried (only for the sake of experiment) downvoting Marshal's post, but it stayed at 0. Or is there a hidden variable rating R that visualizes as max(R,0)?

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 07 March 2009 12:23:17AM *  1 point [-]

Or is there a hidden variable rating R that visualizes as max(R,0)?

That's how things work on reddit, so my guess is that's how it is here too.

Edit: What's up with Marshall's karma score? Perhaps karma is being stored as an unsigned integer?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 March 2009 12:37:28AM 1 point [-]

See this thread about the problem with Karma underflow.