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This makes me think twice about upvoting dying comments that I think are constructive but just happen to go against popular consensus.

I have a lot of karma and an account over a decade old. So I probably have nothing to worry about. But is agreeing with comments killed by down vote really a red flag?

>>MacsHe+(OP)
Your account's fine and the posts you've been upvoting (I took a quick look) seem fine. What we're really trying to avoid is garden-variety flamewar.

> is agreeing with comments killed by down vote really a red flag?

On the contrary, that's a good contribution and we hope everyone will do it when good comments (that don't break the site guideline) have been unfairly downvoted.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

p.s. It's always the good users who worry about these things!

>>dang+5
Okay, I replied before you edited your comment to add the bit about what constitutes a "bad" comment. I definitely don't upvote those comments. :)

Thanks, dang.

>>MacsHe+n
Sorry - I'm a compulsive self-editor and I have to see the post in 'reality' before I can tell what's wrong with it. I have the delay setting in my profile set to 1 minute but more is not practical.

>>dang+O
> Sorry - I'm a compulsive self-editor and I have to see the post in 'reality' before I can tell what's wrong with it.

I have the exact same thing. I check a comment three times, it looks fine. Hit 'reply', the page refreshes and I spot a whole raft of things that are wrong with it. Very frustrating. Maybe a 'preview' button would help?

>>jacque+o1
The 'delay' setting is there for this (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) - not sure if that suits you or not. Everyone seems to have a slightly different way of working.