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Down modded you by accident (is there an undo?), that's a great quote

• byrneseyeview 17y ago
  Slightly offtopic: I think it would be possible to implement downvotes on stories, and undoing of votes, through an FF extension. What you'd do is this: you would sign up for the extension, and it would implement your actions by ignoring other people's actions. For example, user A wants to downvote a story. User B wants to upvote it. User A clicks the extension-added downvote button, and when User A clicks "upvote," the vote is discarded. Similarly, the system would undo your downvote by ignoring the next downvote. This is probably not an intended HN feature, though.
  • astine 17y ago
    I don't think that there is anyway I would sign up for something that would allow people to cancel my upvotes. Even if I did, I'd open another browser to upvote and only us the extension enabled one to downvote, which would negate the point of the system. I don't think that it would work.
  • apu 17y ago
    An easier way to do it would be the way the "undo send email" in gmail works: you don't actually take the action for a few seconds, during which time the user can change his mind. My guess is that most accidental up/down votes are realized almost immediately, so this "grace period" would only need to be a few seconds.
    • byrneseyeview 17y ago
      That would handle accidental votes, but not votes that can't be made, e.g. downvotes. I think it would make more sense to have a single mechanism for all of these.