20 karma – downvote comments.
200 karma – make polls (http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll).
250 karma – customize the top bar background color.
??? karma – flag posts and comments (on their individual page).
Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
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Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
#2220 karma – downvote comments. 200 karma – make polls ( http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll ). 250 karma – customize the top bar background color. ??? karma – flag posts and comments (on their individual page).
Flagging is much lower; somewhere in the 100s.
Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
#23your destiny unlocks with karma. it ensures that in your next re-incarnation, you do not come back as a Digg user
Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
#24My question would be: why the secrecy? HN worried that transparency about the processes of ratings & their "rewards" (which (plus + $5.00) will buy you a cappuccino) would lead to abuse of the system? I think openness system would allow for HN viewers to discuss the value of different site-karma processes -- enabling the site designers (and all of us) to benefit more from the community's collective genius and experie…
It's simpler than you think. As moderately dangerous new features got added, I gave them karma thresholds to avoid abuse. Since there's no man page there's nowhere to list them all. Most got explained individually in News News though.
Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
#2520 karma – downvote comments. 200 karma – make polls ( http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll ). 250 karma – customize the top bar background color. ??? karma – flag posts and comments (on their individual page).
Flagging is much lower; somewhere in the 100s.
It has to be. I have 206 and can flag.
Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
#26At 600+ karma, you get infinite bonus mushrooms and infinite ammo. You have to beat the game twice on impossible mode in the military suit and max out all your guns, though, even the stupid one that takes forever to fire and then the zombie eats your head because you were sitting there trying to warm it up instead of shooting zombies, which would have been the logical thing to do.
At 1000+ karma, you take off your helmet and guess what you're a chick. If you win three times in a row on impossible mode with perfect karma without getting shot once, using nothing but the annoying gun that takes forever, you take off your armor and guess what you're a hot chick. Then you can play the game again wearing a bikini.
At 2000+ karma, Paul Graham comes to your house, tells you the meaning of life, and makes you a sandwich. It is the best sandwich known to man. Only rich people can make this sandwich.
Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
#2720 karma – downvote comments. 200 karma – make polls ( http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll ). 250 karma – customize the top bar background color. ??? karma – flag posts and comments (on their individual page).
I think the 20 limit is wrong, since I'm past that and still can't downvote comments.
Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
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Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
#29At 600+ karma, you get infinite bonus mushrooms and infinite ammo. You have to beat the game twice on impossible mode in the military suit and max out all your guns, though, even the stupid one that takes forever to fire and then the zombie eats your head because you were sitting there trying to warm it up instead of shooting zombies, which would have been the logical thing to do. At 1000+ karma, you take off your he…
These numbers are way too low. I'd have to have gone to 94 people's houses and made them sandwiches. (I already explained the meaning of life in a footnote in "Great Hackers.")
Re: Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
#30I have downvote arrows on comments, but at some point they ceased to affect the score. Which is to say, I click on the downvote, and the points go down by one, but upon reloading the page, the score is the same as before. (And yes, it's happened enough times that I know it isn't just someone voting the comment back up in the intervening period.)
Could the time to downvote have already passed? (i.e. you downvoted on a stale page)