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Ixiel comments on Open thread, August 4 - 10, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Ixiel 07 August 2014 12:56:37AM 1 point [-]

Is there a way to see if I can vote both ways?

A month or so ago I started to get errors saying I can't downvote. I don't really care that much (it's not me that's gaining from my vote), but if I can't downvote I want to make sure I don't upvote so I don't bias things.

Comment author: Alicorn 07 August 2014 01:06:48AM 3 points [-]

Your downvotes are limited by your karma (I think it's four downvotes to a karma point). I don't think you will meaningfully bias anything if you continue to upvote things you like while accumulating enough karma to downvote again.

Comment author: tut 07 August 2014 04:19:20PM 1 point [-]

That they are, even when everything works perfectly. There was also an error a while ago that gave the same error message to (some?) people who were not at their limit.

Comment author: Ixiel 07 August 2014 01:32:46AM 1 point [-]

Yeah it's the principle. I guess I'll just try a down before I up going forward. Thanks Al

Comment author: tut 07 August 2014 04:16:52PM 1 point [-]

I had those too. It stopped rather quickly.