On: Those who exercise free speech should also defend it even when it’s offensive

[ratww]

> In the forum I was working on, downvotes were limited per 24h

I believe this is also true for Hacker News.

[jessaustin → ratww]

If so, it must be a sort of "hell" downvote, which has no effect even though the UI seems to indicate that it does... I don't think this would change behavior as described above.