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For the greater portion of a year, I can no longer upvote comments. I can upvote submissions though. I suspect this was mitigation against my upvoting comments
by eth0up 4y ago
For the greater portion of a year, I can no longer upvote comments. I can upvote submissions though.
I suspect this was mitigation against my upvoting comments which seemed unfairly grayed.
It's very kind of them to leave me the arrow icon, which at least pretends to accept my input.
- ryandrake 4y agoHow do you know or test this? You can’t see the numeric scores of other people’s comments. Use a second account?
- jrootabega 4y agoYou can see the person's total points
- eth0up 4y agoThe other reply to your question is correct. Simply note the user's total sum.
- philipkglass 4y agoI had this limitation on my account for a while too. It was because I was upvoting flame-bait comments that had been grayed out. My personal reasoning at the time was "but the other poster started it" (these were deeply nested angry comment chains). After a couple of months I emailed dang to request if I could get real voting back and he took the penalty off my account, after explaining why it had been put there in the first place. If you see an ugly exchange of comments, DO downvote (or ignore) provocations. DON'T upvote provocative retorts, even if you think that the reaction was justified. And if you get your account penalized, you can have the penalties lifted with an email to hn@ycombinator.com.