I can still downvote, so presumably the threshold has been moved up a bit.
Just write a few more insightful comments or submit some good stories and you'll probably be able to downvote again.
Just write a few more insightful comments or submit some good stories and you'll probably be able to downvote again.
In any case, why isn't the threshold value set dynamically? Maybe something like "if the user is within the top 70% of karma earners for the past week AND within the top 85% of karma earners all time" then allow them to downvote. This way it always adjusts to the traffic on the site and doesn't need to be manually changed unless you want to tweak the parameters a bit.
My daily reading list is usually just about exhausted by the time I go to bed, if HN gets any bigger I'll have to get more selective about what I read.
So much interesting stuff gets posted here.