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		msluyter on Sept 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: Are there too many NSA stories on HN, or not... You can't downvote submissions (or at least, I can't. If you can it must require a certain karma threshold). So perhaps some see flagging as the only option for expressing disapproval of a given story.

rb2e on Sept 11, 2013 [–]

To downvote comments, you need to have a certain amount of Karma though I don't remember the exact number.

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