I thought so, but then who knows what magic powers are granted to the upper echelons with 10000+ points.

Also, you can "flag". But I think it's only reserved for taking down partisan politics and flamewars (or other politically unpopular posts in Silicon Valley's standards), not (and I think should not) used for other purposes.

But I guess there's nothing to prevent you from doing it anyway, the guideline says,

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about [...]

So yeah, feel free to flag, it's not abuse. The automatic threshold rule and the moderators have a final saying.

Well, the official rule says "no". But we can never know if @dang had secretly granted it. It's what makes HN having a bit of mythical fun ;-)

At 10,000 karma, the downvote option gets taken away again. Then you need to get 500,000 karma to get it back.