Aks HN: What requirements for downvote activation?

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I know this question was often here. I read before that you need 100 karma to be able to downvote. Now I have 201 and never saw a downvote button anywhere. What other requirements are there?

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According to the FAQ, downvote arrows only occur after you reach a certain karma threshold. A long time ago, this was bumped to 200, and about a year ago (October 31, 2010), that was again increased to 500: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

I believe that the marker is still at 500.

Okay, thanks.

I guess this is no longer accurate (Feb 2009): http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html

We've also doubled the karma threshold for downvoting comments (to 100)

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