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I just learned from the post you need 500 karma. I'm only 2 away!

Couldn't resist. Happy 500. :-)

Ha ha! Thanks! I have exactly 500 now. Maybe I should change my handle to icandownvote.

Edit: Maybe it takes more than 500, or some time. I don't have down arrows yet.

It got mine relatively recently. I remember it took about 15 minutes after I reached 500. Either the system takes a little while to recognize the change, or I reached 501 in that time.

Note that you can't vote on comments over 24 hours old or replies to yourself, so don't use those to check your ability.

I just got downvote power!

You need more karma. There's a karma threshold below which you can't downvote. I haven't reached it either. Soon, though. And when I do. Oh...

you need ~500 karma to downvote comments.