It's also valuable because it eventually grants the ability to downvote. (It's a... | Hacker News

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		damncabbage on March 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Auto submission bots on Hacker News It's also valuable because it eventually grants the ability to downvote. (It's annoying to see obvious trolls and spam sitting at 1 and not be able to do anything about it. I'm still a few hundred points away, unless the threshold has gone up again.)

mirkules on March 30, 2011 | [–]

How do you find out the threshold anyway? It seems like it's a mystery for some reason (unlike, SO for example, where it's all spelled out)

damncabbage on March 30, 2011 | | [–]

It was 500 last time I looked; pg raised it during a "HN is going to the dogs" discussion a while back:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

JakeSc on March 30, 2011 | [–]

Do you happen to know what the threshold is?

famousactress on March 30, 2011 | [–]

it's 500.

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