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Unrelated question: Do you have to have a certain amount of "points" on an HN account to be able to see the downvoting button, or something? I've only ever seen
by registeredcorn 3y ago
Unrelated question: Do you have to have a certain amount of "points" on an HN account to be able to see the downvoting button, or something? I've only ever seen the up-arrow and assumed that either my account received some kind of "black mark" or that it hasn't met some arbitrary threshold.
- rtavares 3y agoAccording to Wikipedia[1], you need 501 karma points: > Hacker News does not allow users to downvote content until they have accumulated 501 "karma" points. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
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- mikequinlan 3y agohttps://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented >After users reach 501 Karma, they gain the ability to downvote another comment.