You can downvote with 32768 or higher karma.

neilv an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Are you making a joke, like I did about 32767, when I hit 31337? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760058

thunderbong 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nope

tnelsond4 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's the maximum value of a signed 16 bit integer. But there's a GitHub page that explains hn lore.

What HN-lore page are you referring to? This[0] one explicitly states:

> Although submissions cannot be downvoted, [...]

	▲	tnelsond4 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I meant to reply to John who was asking where someone was getting the 32768 number from. No idea if it's true, but that's the significance of that number. Yeah that's the lore page does look like there's no downvoting submissions then and people are just trolling.

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