[fnayr]

I'm still working my way towards earning the downvote! I have been on the site for over 6 years and browse more than I contribute, but I still am shy a little of the 500 karma required. I wonder if there are users with even older accounts than mine that are still active and don't have the karma yet either.

[Theodores]

Think of all the real work you have done in that time. You would not have done it all had you spent 1000+ hours collecting those internet points that none of your real friends care about.

You are winning by not being able to downvote yet.

EDIT: ...as I up-vote y'all stuck in this thread...

[FuckOffNeemo]

Just over ~2 years and almost half way there for me.

I haven't submitted much but occasionally comment around.

Glad I'm not the only procrastinator though the allure to be able to down vote trolls is very, very real.

[ojkelly]

7 years without the downvote here. Still got a long way to go.

[cjhveal]

For what it's worth, my account is older by ~7 months and I'm not yet halfway there.

[fnayr]

Okay interesting, I thought I was alone. Guess there's a lot of us "noncontributors" on here haha.

[5555624]

Or "occasional" contributors. My biggest problem is I am often reading the comments a couple of days later and the discussion is no longer active.

[BrandoElFollito]

This is a real problem. I noticed that all my (infinitesimal) karma was received on comments which were a few hours old.

The brilliant comments which are 1+ day old all went to a blackhole nirvana.

[jvzr]

Just celebrated my 6 years on HN last month, and a little over half way there myself. Not sure I'm wise enough to downvote correctly though: sometimes I wish to downvote someone because what he said is stupid, but that's not how you use downvotes.

[babaganoosh89]

Hope my upvote gets you a little closer :)

[b3n]

Over a decade of browsing HN nearly every day, and still don't have it yet. One day, maybe. :-)

[simlevesque]

I just got it today after five years. I was freaked out at first.

[sachleen]

6 years and 3 months and I am not even 1/5th of the way there.

[phaylon]

Almost 9 years for me without downvoting.

[hungerstrike]

Even before you get the ability to downvote, the fascist regime will stop counting your upvotes if you upvote the wrong comments (ones which have been secretly flagged by the mods).

However, if you're careful you can use your upvotes against those comments that you don't like by upvoting everything around them.