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"The thresholds at which this happens changes over time, I believe the downvote cap is at 50 right now and the flag cap is at 200." I may be reading this wrong
by tnorthcutt 16y ago
"The thresholds at which this happens changes over time, I believe the downvote cap is at 50 right now and the flag cap is at 200."
I may be reading this wrong, but I think what you're saying is that once you reach a karma of 50, you can downvote comments. I'm pretty sure that's incorrect - I have a karma of 89 as of this writing, and (unless I haven't yet figured out how to) am unable to downvote comments. Maybe someone who recently became able to could give a more accurate number.
- jeebusroxors 16y agoI'm at 147 and no down vote. I think he has it backwards? I had heard somewhere else 200 was the magic number for comments.
- jessor 16y agoYes, you need a karma of 200+ to be able to downvote. Reached that just a few weeks ago. You can only downvote comments which were made after you reached the treshhold.
- icey 16y agoOnly partially true - nobody can downvote comments after a certain amount of time. I'm not sure if it's 12 or 24 hours; but it's a fairly short window.
- jacquesm 16y agoOk, thanks I've updated that. Anybody have a hard number for the 'flag' option?
- eogas 16y agoIs this flagging comments or flagging submissions? I'm just over 100 and I can flag submissions but not comments.
- jacquesm 16y agoSubmissions, I never realized there was a separate threshold for comments, I'll amend the text, thanks. Now of course the next question is if anybody knows that the threshold is for flagging comments?
- hrabago 16y agoI've been curious about this for a while now. I'm at 192 right now. If I reach 200 while I can still reply to this thread, I'll post about it.
- hrabago 16y agoAt 205 karma, I can see the arrows for downvoting now. The flag for comments had been available before, but like eogas, I didn't know how to access them.
- eogas 16y agoIt looks like I'm such an HN newbie that I didn't know you have to actually visit the individual comment page to flag it. So they're probably are both the same. And they're probably both 100 or less.
- tnorthcutt 16y agoIt is less than or equal to 92 (my current karma).
- ryanwaggoner 16y ago