alt Hacker News> Downvoting is the tool for items that you think don't belong on the front page.
You can’t downvote submissions. That’s literally not a feature of the site. You can only flag submissions, if you have more that 31 karma.
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NiloCK • today at 12:35 PM
Twelve year old account and who knows how much lurking before that and I've never noticed this. Good lord.
Optimistically, I guess I can call myself some sort of live-and-let-live person.
And flagging is appropriate when you think content is not authentic