Ask HN: Does karma give any privileges?

1 pointAkcium4 comments

So the question is: does karma matter in anyway on HN?

You can flag submission when you have 51, downvote after 250. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented Those links are otherwise hidden, but not really secret because the features are mentioned in the FAQ.

I think flag/vouch is at 31 and downvote is at 501. The change in the color of the topbar is at 251.

Anyway, the mods can change these numbers without warning, but IIRC they have not changed for a long time.

Yes, downvote appears after 500.

When my turn arrived a short time ago, I was curious if it would disappear if I got downvoted below 500 afterward. Not an experiment I was particularly driven to attempt, though. I try to keep my nose clean and save the knee-jerk vitriol for Twitter folks who say bad things about Lisp, so that question will theoretically and happily remain a mystery to me.

This sounds like a question that may have been asked frequently in the past

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