Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?

Post by frisco » Mon, Jan 19, 2009, 4:14 AM UTC

CalmQuiet wrote: post #43

pg wrote: post #24

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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.

Thanks for the reply. That leads me rather automatically to rephrase my question: "Why no man page?" And (sorry to be such a newb) what is News News? Do you mean just http://news.ycombinator.com/news ? If so the SEARCH button/form is proving hard for me to find !?¿?!

Post by gaius » Mon, Jan 19, 2009, 10:45 AM UTC

jjs wrote: post #56

gaius wrote: post #55

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sudo make me a sandwich :-)

gaius is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Post by _5y6p » Mon, Jan 19, 2009, 10:50 PM UTC

jjs wrote: post #30

_5y6p wrote: post #11

I 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)

Post by jwilliams » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 12:00 PM UTC

Xichekolas wrote: post #38

pg wrote: post #29

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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.")

Hmmm... I'm getting close to my 2000... Can I request a chicken sandwich with my zen awakening? Rumor has it that at 20,000 karma you get to know nickb's true identity.