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People have made accounts just to downvote me. So I must be doing something right.
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> People have made accounts just to downvote me.

How can you tell?


A greentext username with 10 minute old account, zero karma and 1 comment that comment being something negative in response usually

There was an example months ago but I don’t keep track of the specifics


Accounts with zero karma don’t have the ability to downvote comments.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...

> After users reach 501 Karma, they gain the ability to downvote another comment.


Ah good point, well they sign up to say nasty stuff at least



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