The karma threshold for downvoting was raised to 500, a few days ago. There are some recent threads on this. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:news.y

The karma threshold for downvoting was raised to 500, a few days ago. There are some recent threads on this. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+threshold+500|501 https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.... Edit: Stripped superfluous query string parameters