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Re:Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools by nkurz on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:56PM (#12983943)
it seemed to me that only those comments made after I gained this ability were downvotable

I think you might be mistaken. You might not have noticed yet that the downvote option disappears on its own a set time (24 hours, I think) after the comment was made. Perhaps it was only the comments older than this threshold that were non-votable?

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Re:Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools by EdwardCoffin on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:07AM (#12986434)
That's quite possible. I had not realized that the downvote option disappeared so quickly.

I think my karma accrued overnight, so when I noticed I'd exceeded the threshold a lot of the thread was perhaps a day old. The only thing I am relatively certain of is that some of the older comments in the thread were not downvotable, and the newer ones were.

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