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Ask HN: (why) Does upvoting get disabled for old submissions and comments?
I am going through some quite old submissions (eg the "passive income" ones from previous years) and I just noticed that upvoting them and their comments doesn't work. Is that a bug or a desired functionality and if so what's the idea behind it?
P.S: (not criticising or anything, just curious)
- AnimalMuppet 12y agoDoes it get disabled? Yes. It seems to disable by 180 days, maybe a bit sooner (too lazy to nail the number down at the moment). Is it a bug, or desired functionality? I think it's desired functionality, not a bug. Why? I might throw out some guesses, but I don't really know.
- dang 12y agoI've always assumed the intention is to treat older threads as history.