I have noticed over the last few days that I'm not getting the downvote arrow anymore. Has the threshold for downvoting changed? Is anyone else seeing the same thing? I hadn't even noticed until someone pointed out some downvoting and I realized I didn't have the arrow anymore. Even then I thought it might be a temporary thing or something, but now it just seems strange to me.
From <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529</a><p><pre><code> > pg
> I've often thought of it. The reason I had downvotes
> originally was to deter people from saying things that
> were mean or stupid. But maybe the right way to deal
> with that is a separate mechanism from voting, as it
> is with stories. Maybe the right combo for comments is
> an uparrow, plus a flag link, and encourage users to
> flag comments that are mean or stupid.
>
> I'll think about the real solution more after I'm done
> reading applications, but I'll increase the downvote
> threshold to 500 now.</code></pre>