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It comes at 500 karma. You'll have to wait a while. And if you mean the article, then you'll never get downvote. There is no downvoting articles. Only flagging.

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Oh I thought it was removed completly. I understood that but this 500 points-rule souds like an invitation to karma whoring...

I'll return to my silent existence now.

Karma-whoring will be counterproductive if the community doesn't solicit/reward such behaviour. And this attitude of the community has more or less thwarted karma-whoring till now. We'll see how this works out in future.

Really? How do you realise it is carma whoring on such a high niveau portal? I see many comments stating the obvious getting their upvotes, not contributing anything useful to a topic. It is still carma whoring, just on a high niveau. This is what such a system creates and it forces you to scroll more to find the really useful comment. I know it works, I did it too ;)

Removing the system completly while integrating a clever report-system would have been more useful here imho.

I will probably never get to 500 because the only way I can "downvote" is to post a challenging, dismissive, or otherwise negative comment. Which people don't really like. Since I don't care at all about karma, I also cannot be bothered to carefully craft intelligent-seeming pedagogery, to humble-brag, to spam, or any other form of whoring, subtle or blatant. Oh well.

That explains the new accounts with 500+ karma...

Links? That sounds very interesting if theres a real pattern to it.

Are you threatening me? ;-) Kidding aside, I almost never downvote (power = responsibility)

I haven't seen that formula before

Yeah, it's not really popular, these days. And don't count on it becoming more popular any time soon.

Generally formulas with no application or truth to them are avoided. What I think you mean is "With great power, comes great responsibility" It's subtly different, but "the devil is in the details."

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