Hacker News, now with downvotes

Re:Hacker News, now with downvotes by yosho on Thursday December 09, 2010 @08:59AM (#1987409)

anyone know why they raised the downvote option from 200 karma to 500?

I miss my down arrow :(

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Re:Hacker News, now with downvotes by hugh3 on Thursday December 09, 2010 @09:17AM (#1987487)

Inflation. More users means karma is easier to get. And there's enough folks out there with 500+ karma to ensure that any deserving comment can get downvoted to the floor.

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Re:Hacker News, now with downvotes by borism on Thursday December 09, 2010 @09:09AM (#1987442)

because they can

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Re:Hacker News, now with downvotes by ollysb on Thursday December 09, 2010 @09:05AM (#1987431)

Now you're just showing off ;)

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