On: I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back t...

[alexgartrell]

There should be an option to abstain from voting as well, for those that don't know if it's a valid comment or not.

[nathanb → alexgartrell]

Isn't that just called "not voting"?

[angusgr → nathanb]

I think they mean "not voting but still being able to see how people voted on that particular comment"

[allwein → angusgr]

About 4 seconds after that feature was implemented, someone would write a greasemonkey script that clicks all the abstain buttons for an HN article.

[angusgr → allwein]

If you choose to run that script then you're choosing to not vote at all (assuming votes can't be changed, which they can't now.) Which means you can't contribute to the "social confirmation up/down vote pile-on" problem either. So that particular problem would remain solved.