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Re:Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user. by bdfh42 on Sunday June 03, 2012 @10:49AM (#4060843)
You need a few points yourself first (no idea what the threshold is). Post some interesting items or join in the debates in the "comments".

I think you can probably see that this is a guard against "sock puppets" being used to promote spam posts.

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Re:Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user. by octopus on Sunday June 03, 2012 @11:00AM (#4060879)
The threshold is about 2 karma points for being able to upvote a story.
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Re:Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user. by jebblue on Sunday June 03, 2012 @02:35PM (#4061454)
It looks like on this site, anyone can express an opinion of agreement with an up vote but only some who have earned it are allowed to express they disagree by using a down vote. Anyone can comment though.
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Re:Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user. by PopaL on Sunday June 03, 2012 @08:35PM (#4062180)
No matter how many karma points you have, you can't downvote a story. You can only upvote or flag a story.
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Re:Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user. by jebblue on Sunday June 03, 2012 @10:33PM (#4062420)
People do sometimes get their comments downvoted so I'm not sure what you are saying?
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Re:Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user. by PopaL on Monday June 04, 2012 @09:36AM (#4063902)
I was talking about a link that you submit cu HN. You can't downvote that, the original question was related to a story (or a link) submitted to HN.
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Re:Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user. by tgrass on Monday June 04, 2012 @06:55PM (#4066407)
I believe at 500 points you can downvote comments.
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Re:Why I can not upvote a story? I am a new user. by bwei on Sunday June 03, 2012 @05:33PM (#4061816)
Thank you all. It works.
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