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Ask HN: How is it determined whether or not you can downvote a comment?
Take this example
https://postimg.org/image/kxdt7vpbr/
Why can I upvote the more recent comment, but not the parent?
- gus_massa 10y agoI guess they are the two oneliners in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13122834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13122834 You can't downvote the top level comments in your submissions. Also, you can't downvote the replies to your comments. (You can't downvote comments after 12 hours.)(Perhaps there are also other cases, I'm not sure.)
- adenadel 10y agoThanks! Where did you find that information? It's not in the Guidelines or the FAQs.
- gus_massa 10y agoMmm... Two much time in HN to recognize patterns and see if they are real or I'm just imagining them. Sometimes dang makes an announcement of big changes.
- grzm 10y agoThe Unofficial Hacker News FAQ is useful as well (though I think some of the links to external services such as search and notifications are a bit outdated): http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-unofficial-hn-faq http://jacquesmattheij.com/the-unofficial-hn-faq