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Why does the Hacker News API not have a comment score?

2 pointsby oaldersabout 9 years ago
I&#x27;ve been playing with the API a bit and I fully expected comments to have a score, just like stories do, but that doesn&#x27;t appear to be the case: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HackerNews&#x2F;API#items<p>It looks like issues are disabled on the Github repo, so I can&#x27;t easily ask there. Is there a specific reason this has not been made available?<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HackerNews&#x2F;API#items

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gus_massaabout 9 years ago
Score of comments is hidden, if it were available in the API someone would write in 30 minutes an extension to show them in the main site.<p>Perhaps they can add a &quot;graycolor&quot; field, that is somewhat related to the score.
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brudgersabout 9 years ago
If it really matters this is probably a good question to ask dang, the moderator. Just use the email on the contact link at the bottom of the page.
redox_about 9 years ago
From what I remember it&#x27;s because HN keep the comments score private for the first N days. Not sure whether the Firebase API send an `updated` event once disclosed (doesn&#x27;t seem so).