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Ask HN: How much karma is needed to downvote?

2 points by _grrr ↗ HN
Not that I have the urge to, but I was just curious how many points are needed to down vote comments these days?

According to this http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=745206 it's 200, but I'm still not blessed...

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

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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.