It's not possible for a parent commenter to downvote their children. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvoting-comments https://github.c

It's not possible for a parent commenter to downvote their children. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvoting-comments https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo... "You cannot downvote comments which are direct replies to your own comment, and you cannot downvote 24 hours after the original comment was made." So therefore I upvoted you. Other members of this community may downvote you, though, (and probably me too), because we're really far off topic now.