Another suggestion would be to add a little "title edited by: MOD_USERNAME" tag to any edited titles so we could at least keep track of the moderators who are doing it incorrectly.
As it stands, I have no idea if pg himself edited the title or if it was some random user who recently acquired the correct amount of karma.
If you want karma all you have to do is submit a lot of garbage, just keep it coming. Most of your submissions will get 0 votes, a few will get you 10 or 20 votes, and one or two will get you 300-400. That's how downvoters get their downvoting powers.
Another option is to submit quality comments for a decade without being banned for saying something against Ruby or whatever the mods are emotionally or economically attached to at the time. Then you may be able to downvote.
>Another option is to submit quality comments for a decade without being banned for saying something against Ruby or whatever the mods are emotionally or economically attached to at the time. Then you may be able to downvote.
No one has said that HN karma is worth anything. I was just providing anecdotal evidence on whether or not there is a karma threshold for moderator status.
Certain permissions are, like when you get over 500 karma for example as you should soon: you will notice a downvote option beside comments that are not a directly reply to your own.
As it stands, I have no idea if pg himself edited the title or if it was some random user who recently acquired the correct amount of karma.