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How does one get down-vote?

LeafStorm 14y ago
I'm pretty sure you get downvoting powers at 500 karma. (At least, that's about when I got them. I have heard rumors that it fluctuates, and like all the mechanics of Hacker News, the precise rules are proprietary secret sauce.)
- jurre 14y ago
  I think it might be 550 nowadays (I think I got it at that mark a couple of months ago)
  - jgeralnik 14y ago
    Nope. I got it recently and can say for sure that it happened at exactly 500.
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  I have downvote in this thread but not always. I find the removal of edit, reply and voting privelege at seemingly arbitrary conditions to be very annoying.
  - sesqu 14y ago
    Downvoting is disabled for very new comments and for replies to comments you've upvoted, iirc. Editing is disabled after a "reasonable" time. I don't think replying is ever disabled.
    - qw 14y ago
      I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments
      - tokenadult 14y ago
        I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments Downvotes are disabled for any comment more than 24 hours old, but upvotes are still allowed after more than a day. Emphasize the positive.
        pbhjpbhj 14y ago
        Ha, and there we go, so I couldn't reply to you (no reply link) within the discussion but I can by following the "link" link and then replying. What's that all about? My main point would have to be that you have to work all of this out. Shouldn't it just be written in the FAQs. You could make the UI more helpful, like keep the reply link but disable it (eg with strike through) or have it popup a note "new comment: reply disabled for 5 minutes" or whatever. Or on pages with no downvote have a header comment in a box saying "downvoting disabled; all stories have down-voting disabled after 24 hours". Gah, I have to stop before I get on to not having collapsible threads and the lameness of greying out comments and not having vote count displayed and ...
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    - pyre 14y ago
      You also can't downvote people that reply to your comments, though you can upvote them.
    - growt 14y ago
      Commenting is disabled for the job-ads that are mixed with the stories on the homepage. Maybe thats what pbhjpbhj meant with reply?
    - scott_s 14y ago
      New comments have a brief time without a reply link - although you can still get to it by going to the comment itself through the "link" URL. The purpose is to slow down the back-and-forth arguments between two people that become "Nu-huh!" "Yeah-huh!"
obtu 14y ago
500 karma according to this infrequently-updated FAQ: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#karma http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#karma
- mayneack 14y ago
  As of 3 weeks ago, this is true. I checked mine at 501
  - untog 14y ago
    Anyone know when you get to downvote submissions? I still don't have that yet.
    - JshWright 14y ago
      You can flag submissions, you can't downvote them.
  - delinka 14y ago
    Replying beside untog because I'm not permitted to reply to untog. You don't downvote submissions. You just don't upvote if you don't like it.
    - srbloom 14y ago
      So upvote every submission except for the one you don't like.

I'm pretty sure you get downvoting powers at 500 karma. (At least, that's about when I got them. I have heard rumors that it fluctuates, and like all the mechanics of Hacker News, the precise rules are proprietary secret sauce.)

jurre 14y ago
I think it might be 550 nowadays (I think I got it at that mark a couple of months ago)
- jgeralnik 14y ago
  Nope. I got it recently and can say for sure that it happened at exactly 500.
pbhjpbhj 14y ago
I have downvote in this thread but not always. I find the removal of edit, reply and voting privelege at seemingly arbitrary conditions to be very annoying.
- sesqu 14y ago
  Downvoting is disabled for very new comments and for replies to comments you've upvoted, iirc. Editing is disabled after a "reasonable" time. I don't think replying is ever disabled.
  - qw 14y ago
    I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments
    - tokenadult 14y ago
      I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments Downvotes are disabled for any comment more than 24 hours old, but upvotes are still allowed after more than a day. Emphasize the positive.
      - pbhjpbhj 14y ago
        Ha, and there we go, so I couldn't reply to you (no reply link) within the discussion but I can by following the "link" link and then replying. What's that all about? My main point would have to be that you have to work all of this out. Shouldn't it just be written in the FAQs. You could make the UI more helpful, like keep the reply link but disable it (eg with strike through) or have it popup a note "new comment: reply disabled for 5 minutes" or whatever. Or on pages with no downvote have a header comment in a box saying "downvoting disabled; all stories have down-voting disabled after 24 hours". Gah, I have to stop before I get on to not having collapsible threads and the lameness of greying out comments and not having vote count displayed and ...
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  - pyre 14y ago
    You also can't downvote people that reply to your comments, though you can upvote them.
  - growt 14y ago
    Commenting is disabled for the job-ads that are mixed with the stories on the homepage. Maybe thats what pbhjpbhj meant with reply?
  - scott_s 14y ago
    New comments have a brief time without a reply link - although you can still get to it by going to the comment itself through the "link" URL. The purpose is to slow down the back-and-forth arguments between two people that become "Nu-huh!" "Yeah-huh!"

obtu 14y ago

500 karma according to this infrequently-updated FAQ: http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#karma http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#karma

mayneack 14y ago
As of 3 weeks ago, this is true. I checked mine at 501
- untog 14y ago
  Anyone know when you get to downvote submissions? I still don't have that yet.
  - JshWright 14y ago
    You can flag submissions, you can't downvote them.
- delinka 14y ago
  Replying beside untog because I'm not permitted to reply to untog. You don't downvote submissions. You just don't upvote if you don't like it.
  - srbloom 14y ago
    So upvote every submission except for the one you don't like.