Re:Tell HN: New features and a moderator
by trca on Monday July 11, 2016 @04:49PM
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you need to have a certain amount of karma (number next to your account) for the downvote function to be available.
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A few weeks ago I recently obtained the downvote ability at 500 karma.
Re:Tell HN: New features and a moderator
by justinpombrio on Monday July 11, 2016 @05:17PM
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I suspect you mean 501. I reached 500 a few weeks ago, and left it there for a while... it was such a nice, round number.
Re:Tell HN: New features and a moderator
by inopinatus on Monday July 11, 2016 @07:47PM
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Can I suggest 512 for an even nicer round number.
Sorry upvoted you, onwards to the next round number.
^ This is correct. I was equally confused when mine hit 500 and downvote wasn't there.
Presumably somewhere in the HN code you would find `karma > KARMA_THRESHOLD_DOWNVOTE`.
More likely (> karma downvote-threshold) since news.arc is written in, well, arc.
Good guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606467.
Sure. I should have disclaimed my pseudo-code I guess. Point was just that I expect there's a > and a 500, as opposed to a 501.
Re:Tell HN: New features and a moderator
by perseusprime11 on Monday July 11, 2016 @10:56PM
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What did you do to get to 500? I am still at 84 and feels like it will be forever.