Ask HN: How much karma is needed to downvote?

Re:Ask HN: How much karma is needed to downvote? by RiderOfGiraffes on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @06:17AM (#1957524)

From memory, a few weeks ago it was upped to 500, I think. I'll see if I can find the item.

ADDED IN EDIT:

From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

  > pg
  > I've often thought of it. The reason I had downvotes
  > originally was to deter people from saying things that
  > were mean or stupid. But maybe the right way to deal
  > with that is a separate mechanism from voting, as it
  > is with stories. Maybe the right combo for comments is
  > an uparrow, plus a flag link, and encourage users to
  > flag comments that are mean or stupid.
  >
  > I'll think about the real solution more after I'm done
  > reading applications, but I'll increase the downvote
  > threshold to 500 now.

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Re:Ask HN: How much karma is needed to downvote? by timelinex on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @06:19AM (#1957529)

Could you cite the post for this?

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Re:Ask HN: How much karma is needed to downvote? by gdl on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @06:19AM (#1957531)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

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Re:Ask HN: How much karma is needed to downvote? by RiderOfGiraffes on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @06:29AM (#1957549)

Um, didn't I do that already when I said:

From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

Perhaps you meant something else ...

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Re:Ask HN: How much karma is needed to downvote? by timelinex on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:07PM (#1959616)

I was in before you edited your post.

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Re:Ask HN: How much karma is needed to downvote? by _grrr on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @06:38AM (#1957573)

Thanks.

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