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Possible fix: Put the up-vote graphic to the left side of a comment (e.g. where it is now), and place the down-vote graphic to the right side (spaced a little b

Possible fix: Put the up-vote graphic to the left side of a comment (e.g. where it is now), and place the down-vote graphic to the right side (spaced a little bit away from the "link"). That makes it pretty hard to accidentally press one when you mean the other. EDIT (example): http://dave-gallagher.net/pics/hnVote.gif http://dave-gallagher.net/pics/hnVote.gif

T-hawk 16y ago
> Possible fix: Put the up-vote graphic to the left side of a comment (e.g. where it is now), and place the down-vote graphic to the right side I'm seconding that suggestion. It's the minimal possible coding workload, and solves the problem instantly for all time.
- moe 16y ago
  So, then the people with the fat fingers will downvote whenever they try to click the 'link'?
  - T-hawk 16y ago
    Good point. Maybe put downvote between "X points" and "by"? Gives unclickable buffer space on each side of the arrow.
makecheck 16y ago
Might want the arrows side-by-side, and just further apart. To me, the separate down-triangle in your screenshot almost looks "menu like" and may occasionally make me hit it for that reason.
saurik 16y ago
I find that the key problem is that the reply on the parent comment is right next to the upvote on a child, so I often find myself accidentally upvoting responses to things I want to reply to.