[nir]

Since there's no way to downmod a submission in HN, the "majority of the community" numbers exactly 14 people at the moment.

[esonica]

Isn't flagging something effectively 'down modding' it? Sorry I don't know much about the HN ranking algorithms.

[goodside]

No. Flagging brings it to the attention of editors, who decide what to do with it. If they kill it it dies, and if they don't it lives. It has no impact on its rank on the front page if the editors don't kill it.

[blasdel]

Stories are auto-killed after a number of flags, and there's been no sanity check against the number of upvotes (pg commented about changing that)

[mishmash]

Honestly? I recently gained downmod arrows on individual comments and had assumed they would arrive for topics with more karma, but that's not the case?

[nir]

Honestly. The downmod arrows are only for comments. No amount of karma enables you to downvote story submissions.

[mishmash]

Eh well thanks for the info.