Comment on Ask HN: What's stopping HN going the way of Reddit/Digg/Slashdot?parentComments−jmatt18yYou can when you get a high enough karma.−PieSquared18yReally? What's the number?−jmatt18yI'm not sure. But I have enough karma at 85. I think the number has changed over time, but I'm not sure.Maybe PG will share it with us or someone has recently hit the magic number?−Hexstream18yI have 867 karma and can't downvote stories. At some point there were talks of letting the top X downvote stories but I don't think it's been done.−jmatt18yYeah it's calculated. I thought you were talking about comments. Or it was last time news.arc was released by PG (= gravity* 1.4 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1) (def frontpage-rank (s (o gravity gravity*)) (/ (- (realscore s) 1) (expt (/ (+ (item-age s) timebase*) 60) gravity))) http://github.com/nex3/arc/tree/master/news.arc−rms18yYou sure you don't mean comments?−jmatt18yYeah my bad, I'm talking about comments.−iamelgringo18yMy karma's 4700 and I can't downvote stories.
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You can when you get a high enough karma.
Really? What's the number?
I'm not sure. But I have enough karma at 85. I think the number has changed over time, but I'm not sure.
Maybe PG will share it with us or someone has recently hit the magic number?
I have 867 karma and can't downvote stories. At some point there were talks of letting the top X downvote stories but I don't think it's been done.
Yeah it's calculated. I thought you were talking about comments. Or it was last time news.arc was released by PG
http://github.com/nex3/arc/tree/master/news.arcYou sure you don't mean comments?
Yeah my bad, I'm talking about comments.
My karma's 4700 and I can't downvote stories.