Also the ability to create polls, which I usually find interesting but which are rarely posted.
I've thought sometimes that it might be interesting to weight votes by the logarithm of the voter's karma, so that the interest / approval of a highly-ranked member would be enough to promote a story from new to the main page.
Hmm i see. A quick search on google tells me that you need 100 points to downvote. I only have 11 :(
Something to aspire too I guess.
I wish there were more search/filter functionality. It would be interesting to filter submissions by posters who meet certain criteria (points, trending info, etc.)
I suspect it's more mysterious than that. I have 182 and can't see a downvote thingy anywhere.
And to me a visible points system is part of the problem. If people 'try' to get more points then they'll post lots of stuff that might just get in. Then you end up like Digg.
it's not that mysterious. it takes more than 100 points to downvote now. pg keeps increasing the point totals you need to do various things, due to karma inflation.
