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A few more of interest: • You cannot downvote a comment after 24 hours have passed. (There is no time limit for upvotes.) • You cannot downvote comments which

A few more of interest: • You cannot downvote a comment after 24 hours have passed. (There is no time limit for upvotes.) • You cannot downvote comments which are direct replies to your own. (There is no restriction to downvote further descendants.) • You cannot unvote/undown a comment after (I think) one hour has passed. • You cannot reply to a reply to one of your comments for a certain number of minutes, which increases based on some relation with nesting depth. However, the reply link appears sooner on the permalink of such comments than it does from the story page. • You cannot edit a comment after (I think) one hour has passed.

frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
>You cannot reply to a reply to one of your comments for a certain number of minutes, which increases based on some relation with nesting depth. Is this the 'you're posting too fast, please slow down' message?
- digi_owl 9y ago
  That one shows for a number of conditions, including if they have limited your account to X comments pr Y hours...
- colanderman 9y ago
  No; in the case of replying to a reply, you simply are not shown the reply link.
dkarl 9y ago
You cannot downvote a comment after 24 hours have passed. This is a nice feature. One reason I stopped using certain subreddits was that people would look up your comment history and downvote all your comments that weren't archived. I think those downvotes would eventually disappear, but it annoyed me enough that I stopped reading the subreddits where it happened.
- jandrese 9y ago
  Eh, it's all fake internet points anyway. I occasionally get hit by an angry downvoter, but as long as your normal content is quality their effect is a drop in the bucket.
  - PhantomGremlin 9y ago
    So many people don't understand this. It's not like accumulating 10,000 karma will get someone a free cup of coffee at Starbucks. I don't deliberately troll to try to get downvotes, but I also don't fall to pieces when I do pick up a few.
    - MichaelDickens 9y ago
      I would actually take the opposite side of this, I think saying "karma is just fake internet points" is missing something important. Karma is a rough metric for social approval, and social approval is one of the most important things for people. Now, karma isn't actually that great of a measure of social approval (you're unlikely to encounter your downvoters in real life; it's easy to get karma by making short uncontroversial comments; etc.), but it still means something, and it makes perfect sense to me that people would care about how much karma they have.
      - jandrese 9y ago
        I would discourage using karma as any measure of worth for the reasons you described. If a user has lots of negative karma that might be something else, but a large positive karma may mean nothing more than the person has been active on the site for a long time and tends to post a lot and doesn't troll frequently. It doesn't mean they're super smart or some incredible subject matter expert or anything like that. They just have a lot of time to post and aren't a complete shithead. In fact site operators should put extra scrutiny towards accounts that accumulate karma too quickly. That could be a sign of bot activity or "account optimization" firms making a mockery of your reputation system.
- mmirate 9y ago
DoreenMichele 9y ago
(There is no time limit for upvotes.) I don't believe this is still true. I think it was at one time.
- mintplant 9y ago
  I can still upvote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
  - DoreenMichele 9y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072520#15075020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072520#15075020
    - joveian 9y ago
      They do still appear on your personal upvoted comments list, which I appreciate. I've also noticed that certain network issues can cause comment voting to silently not be registered, unless you happen to reload the page and notice your upvotes are gone.
      - Flenser 9y ago
        I use a browser extension to highlight voted posts. I often find this useful when revisiting threads on my desktop after voting for comments on mobile.
wglb 9y ago
There is a limit of how old a comment is that will accept an upvote. If you do, it will tell you that you can mark it as a favorite instead.
- dang 9y ago
  We changed that because users complained. The comment DoreenMichele linked to explains.
drdaeman 9y ago
> You cannot downvote comments which are direct replies to your own Update: my apologies, seems that I'm wrong. The quoted statement is correct. I'm sure I saw a downvote arrow there once, though (but that was in 2017, haha) Old comment: Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think one can - they just need to click "N minutes ago" permalink to see the down arrow. Maybe it doesn't affect the score or just cosmetic, but IIRC it's recorded and persists. Unless this was changed recently - can't check (but I swear I saw it there!)
- grzm 9y ago
  Feel free to test it with this comment. I haven’t seen a case where I personally can. Can you downvote it?
  - drdaeman 9y ago
    Oops, seems that it's gone now. I only see an upvote arrow.
    - grzm 9y ago
      Looks like it works for others. Successful test!
- colanderman 9y ago
  Doesn't seem to work for any of the replies to my above comment.

frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago

>You cannot reply to a reply to one of your comments for a certain number of minutes, which increases based on some relation with nesting depth. Is this the 'you're posting too fast, please slow down' message?

digi_owl 9y ago
That one shows for a number of conditions, including if they have limited your account to X comments pr Y hours...
colanderman 9y ago
No; in the case of replying to a reply, you simply are not shown the reply link.

dkarl 9y ago

You cannot downvote a comment after 24 hours have passed. This is a nice feature. One reason I stopped using certain subreddits was that people would look up your comment history and downvote all your comments that weren't archived. I think those downvotes would eventually disappear, but it annoyed me enough that I stopped reading the subreddits where it happened.

jandrese 9y ago
Eh, it's all fake internet points anyway. I occasionally get hit by an angry downvoter, but as long as your normal content is quality their effect is a drop in the bucket.
- PhantomGremlin 9y ago
  So many people don't understand this. It's not like accumulating 10,000 karma will get someone a free cup of coffee at Starbucks. I don't deliberately troll to try to get downvotes, but I also don't fall to pieces when I do pick up a few.
  - MichaelDickens 9y ago
    I would actually take the opposite side of this, I think saying "karma is just fake internet points" is missing something important. Karma is a rough metric for social approval, and social approval is one of the most important things for people. Now, karma isn't actually that great of a measure of social approval (you're unlikely to encounter your downvoters in real life; it's easy to get karma by making short uncontroversial comments; etc.), but it still means something, and it makes perfect sense to me that people would care about how much karma they have.
    - jandrese 9y ago
      I would discourage using karma as any measure of worth for the reasons you described. If a user has lots of negative karma that might be something else, but a large positive karma may mean nothing more than the person has been active on the site for a long time and tends to post a lot and doesn't troll frequently. It doesn't mean they're super smart or some incredible subject matter expert or anything like that. They just have a lot of time to post and aren't a complete shithead. In fact site operators should put extra scrutiny towards accounts that accumulate karma too quickly. That could be a sign of bot activity or "account optimization" firms making a mockery of your reputation system.
mmirate 9y ago

DoreenMichele 9y ago

(There is no time limit for upvotes.) I don't believe this is still true. I think it was at one time.

mintplant 9y ago
I can still upvote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
- DoreenMichele 9y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072520#15075020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072520#15075020
  - joveian 9y ago
    They do still appear on your personal upvoted comments list, which I appreciate. I've also noticed that certain network issues can cause comment voting to silently not be registered, unless you happen to reload the page and notice your upvotes are gone.
    - Flenser 9y ago
      I use a browser extension to highlight voted posts. I often find this useful when revisiting threads on my desktop after voting for comments on mobile.

wglb 9y ago

There is a limit of how old a comment is that will accept an upvote. If you do, it will tell you that you can mark it as a favorite instead.

dang 9y ago
We changed that because users complained. The comment DoreenMichele linked to explains.

drdaeman 9y ago

> You cannot downvote comments which are direct replies to your own Update: my apologies, seems that I'm wrong. The quoted statement is correct. I'm sure I saw a downvote arrow there once, though (but that was in 2017, haha) Old comment: Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think one can - they just need to click "N minutes ago" permalink to see the down arrow. Maybe it doesn't affect the score or just cosmetic, but IIRC it's recorded and persists. Unless this was changed recently - can't check (but I swear I saw it there!)

grzm 9y ago
Feel free to test it with this comment. I haven’t seen a case where I personally can. Can you downvote it?
- drdaeman 9y ago
  Oops, seems that it's gone now. I only see an upvote arrow.
  - grzm 9y ago
    Looks like it works for others. Successful test!
colanderman 9y ago
Doesn't seem to work for any of the replies to my above comment.