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How often have you mis-clicked on an down arrow instead of an up arrow (or vice versa)? Have you ever asked someone who's not a regular to upvote something? Th
by swombat 16y ago
How often have you mis-clicked on an down arrow instead of an up arrow (or vice versa)?
Have you ever asked someone who's not a regular to upvote something? That's obviously not something that should be done (but I guess we all sin sometimes... call it a wild unruly youth), but if you do, you'll find that most people don't even see the voting arrows, let alone figure out what they mean.
If advanced users still make fairly critical usage errors because of small, opposite buttons right next to each other, and newbies can't learn the fundamentals of the interface, i'd say that makes it fairly bad.
On the other hand, as I said, it keeps the barbarians out.
- bendmorris 16y agoMaybe that improves the results. Your score is not a straight up vote from everyone, it's just a sampling from the subset of HN users that can figure out what the buttons do.
- dejb 16y ago> it's just a sampling from the subset of HN users that can figure out what the buttons do Or those who don't experience layout problems. Often there is a significant part of the down arrow that results in an upvote or vice versa. Generally happens in FF for me. I feel like I need to check the URL before clicking.
- smiler 16y agoI can use my mouse, I haven't managed to misclick once.
- simonft1 16y agoWhy do some people have down arrows?
- grayrest 16y agoYou gain the ability to downvote once you've crossed a certain karma threshold.