Yes down voting on comments start when you reach 501. There was a recent post about HN's undocumented features: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437 h

Yes down voting on comments start when you reach 501. There was a recent post about HN's undocumented features: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437