111 comments 1 year ago had 155 upvotes, not 1. The upvote count patterns are interesting nevertheless :)

Sorry, I simply cut-n-paste from the search results - I'll go fix that now.

Thanks for the heads-up - much appreciated.

Added in edit: Now fixed - points and comments. Thanks again.

>I simply cut-n-paste from the search results

Ah, we have a level 0 on the HN matrix here apparently.

Well, to be honest, I have deep-scripted accessing HN, but I tend only to use it when doing big data crunching on trends and similar. When providing cross-references I've usually just put the IDs - actually counting points, comments and age is something I've not done for a while.

Don't think I'll bother again, I get enough grief and hate-mail just from trying to point people at earlier conversations.

I really appreciate it when earlier conversations are pointed to. (The additional points/comments/age numbers are wonderful, too, if you feel up to providing them.)

I wonder if a bot could be written to automate this? There are lots of horrible reasons one could have for writing a HN comment bot, so I'm hesitant to even suggest it, but this seems like a really useful/good bot.

I have one, I used it, I got significant hate-mail, I decided I didn't need the bile I got, I discontinued it.

Actually, I can't tell you how many times a HN comment like yours has turned me on to an ultra-valuable related discussion that I would never have seen or thought to look for.

So don't let negative comments (perceived or actual) speak for us silent appreciaters!

Thank you - much appreciated.

Would you mind publishing an example of a piece of hatemail? I'm baffled people would hate you doing that.

I won't post the unpleasant emails - I'd have to go and find them and I'm not inclined to re-read them. You can read some dissenting opinions, and a reasonably civilized discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013666

Came here to post this, except I was going to suggest it be built into HN itself and be in a section at the top of the comment page, perhaps between the link and the comment box. A way to suggest/add the links to the box would be good too (maybe mods + the submitter could have control of which links show up via this system)

? I was making a joke about the level 0 programmer (cut-n-paste) from the article.

Yes, but at his expense. With just text, it's hard to indicate friendly teasing with people you don't know well.

My lexical parser flagged the "apparently" as playful.

Maybe it had only one upvote, 155 times.