Not that I have the urge to, but I was just curious how many points are needed to down vote comments these days?<p>According to this http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=745206 it's 200, but I'm still not blessed...
From memory, a few weeks ago it was upped to 500, I think. I'll see if I can find the item.<p>ADDED IN EDIT:<p>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>