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"Please don't downvote comments that are only mildly mistaken or disagreeable to scores as low as -10. That kind of score should only be for spams and trolls."

Why not just limit it to -5? There's already the flag for spam and trolls. Just add that to comments as well as posts.



Alternatively, you could let people downvote as much as they want but cap the karma hit at -10.


Comment posts do have the flag, but only if you look at the comment on its own page, e.g., your comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=234897


You've just exposed one of my objections against this type of limit: it's arbitrary. -5? -10? -15?... I don't like arbitrary limits if we can do without.




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