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Well, "500+ karma required to upvote" is pretty precise. You could generalize it to "increase the karma threshold for upvoting," "karma threshold for Ask HN pos

Well, "500+ karma required to upvote" is pretty precise. You could generalize it to "increase the karma threshold for upvoting," "karma threshold for Ask HN posts," and so on. What does "make the flag button more powerful" mean to you? I think that's the real distraction to me.

tptacek 16y ago
Fixed the other stuff. Simplest answer to your question: smaller number of flags required to bury a story.
- akkartik 16y ago
  Ok, looks good. I'd like to resuggest http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242422 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242422 in case you missed it.
  - tptacek 16y ago
    Tell me more about how that will improve S/N on HN?
    - akkartik 16y ago
      You're right, I retract the suggestion. Detecting good comments from lesser-known people is orthogonal and secondary to preventing upvotes to junk.