Ask HN: Point thresholds?

Posted by jmtame on Saturday December 20, 2008 @05:16PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I noticed there is a karma point threshold for flagging, and one of my friends said that he can't change the color of his top nav bar but I can. Are there any other cool tricks that get unlocked as your karma grows?

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by DenisM on Saturday December 20, 2008 @07:11PM (#404992)

After 20,000 you gain skills to host your own copy of HN. So far that's only two people - pg himself and nickb. nickb's site is here: http://www.newmogul.com/

Sometimes I wonder how did pg get his 20,000 points before there even was HN. It's kind of recursive, right? I think some sort of leveraged borrowing was involved.

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by kqr2 on Saturday December 20, 2008 @08:15PM (#405042)

Does http://www.nonhackernews.com/ also use the hacker news code base?

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by mrtron on Saturday December 20, 2008 @08:48PM (#405065)

No as it states it uses Slinkset.

Check it out you could create your own in two seconds.

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by tocomment on Saturday December 20, 2008 @08:24PM (#405050)

Is that really true? You get a copy of the source code and license at 20,000 points?

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by pg on Saturday December 20, 2008 @08:26PM (#405052)

He's joking. Anyone can have the source code. http://www.arclanguage.org/install

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by DenisM on Saturday December 20, 2008 @08:35PM (#405057)

sigh. you could have played along! :)

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by Shamiq on Saturday December 20, 2008 @07:10PM (#404991)

You can find some here: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by vaksel on Saturday December 20, 2008 @07:05PM (#404986)

you can make polls at around 200 or so(I think)

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by Anon84 on Saturday December 20, 2008 @07:46PM (#405014)

Humm... I've never figured out how these work.

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by vaksel on Saturday December 20, 2008 @08:19PM (#405044)

you have to go here to make one http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by zack on Saturday December 20, 2008 @07:50PM (#405018)

At 50 points you can downvote.

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by qqq on Saturday December 20, 2008 @08:03PM (#405034)

250 to change top bar color

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by jackowayed on Saturday December 20, 2008 @09:49PM (#405105)

Man! I want 250 points now. Just 233 points away . . . Of course I pretty much associate the orange and gray with HN, so I'll probably get 250, and say "YES! I can change my top bar color!" and then try to decide what color to use for 10 minutes and leave it the same.

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by windsurfer on Saturday December 20, 2008 @11:45PM (#405195)

As a real hacker, you could use greasemonkey...

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by jackowayed on Sunday December 21, 2008 @12:05AM (#405208)

Yeah, I thought about that as an option. I actually used Firefox Web Developer Toolbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 it does everything!) to see what it looked like w/ #f6f6ef as parenthesis says he uses.

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by parenthesis on Saturday December 20, 2008 @10:14PM (#405122)

I think that HN looks 'wrong' now when I'm not logged in. (I use f6f6ef for a more tasteful look.)

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Re:Ask HN: Point thresholds? by vaksel on Saturday December 20, 2008 @10:44PM (#405146)

chances are you'll stick to the original look...nothing really looks better

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