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Presumably somewhere in the HN code you would find `karma > KARMA_THRESHOLD_DOWNVOTE`.

• wje 10y ago
  More likely (> karma downvote-threshold) since news.arc is written in, well, arc.
  • tempestn 10y ago
    Sure. I should have disclaimed my pseudo-code I guess. Point was just that I expect there's a > and a 500, as opposed to a 501.
  • dang 10y ago
    Good guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606467.