Is it just me? Does this have something to do with election day? Or do I have to crawl out of my non-procrastinating non-participating non-threatening hole and earn some more stinking karma?
Somebody moved your cheese. :-) Over the weekend pg also changed the display at the top to show average karma value along with total karma. You can now also see others' averages by clicking their names.
The karma threshold for downvoting was raised to 500, a few days ago. There are some recent threads on this.<p><a href="https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+threshold+500|501" rel="nofollow">https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator....</a><p>Edit: Stripped superfluous query string parameters