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It's not karma-driven at all, except insofar as downvoting itself requires a karma threshold—a restriction that has been the same for years. It's possible that we'll lower the threshold at some point.



Thanks so much for the response. Can you tell us more about the algorithmic changes, or is the HN source code public?




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