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xlorm on Jan 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Disagree

I was assuming po meant some automatic system. If you wanted to use humans maybe you could have moderators do it.

I agree that it'd be dangerous to let anyone tag. People on YouTube usually mark anything they disagree with as spam. Hopefully it wouldn't be the same here though.

After reading your comment I realized I've seen downvoted comments but I can't downvote. Is there a karma requirement?

djcapelis on Jan 30, 2011 [–]

Yes. After you hit a certain karma threshold a down arrow shows up and you are able to downvote. The specific threshold varies, but it's below a thousand and above a hundred.

patrickk on Jan 30, 2011 | [–]

"The specific threshold varies..." around 200 points if I remember correctly

wahnfrieden on Jan 30, 2011 | | [–]

500 now.

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