On: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

[reitanqild]

When you get enough points (and maybe hasn't been too annoying?) you get downvote privilege.

I think the point is to force people to lurk around a while before they can downvote anything.

[kuschku → reitanqild]

The point is mostly to make sure people are feeling as part of the community by the time they get downvote privilege, and downvote based on what contributes and what doesn’t.

[niels_olson → kuschku]

Ah. My question is regarding this:

> And why the people who can get to decide who can’t.

How does someone with downvote privileges get to decide who can't downvote? Simply because a downvote removes a unit of karma from the downvotee's score?

[kuschku → niels_olson]

Correct. If your Karma is below a specific value, I think 1000 or something, you can’t downvote.