[yalurker]

I think something must have changed since that post. As displayed to me, I'm at 495 karma as of the writing of this post, but I don't currently have the ability to down-vote comments.

[proexploit]

Increased to a 500 karma minimum - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

[solipsist]

Interesting. Thanks for linking to this. At the moment, I have 490 karma :)