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Ask HN: why aren't my comment votes registering?
When I upvote/downvote a comment, the score appears to go up/down, but if I reload the page, it has not changed (my votes on submissions are working).
Is there a new karma threshold for comment voting, of some kind, perhaps based on average karma (per comment)? Or is it a bug?
- ScottWhigham 17y agoI haven't seen that - I just upvoted this and it showed up immediately. Do you have some new Greasemonkey script installed that messes with it, or perhaps NoScript?
- 10ren 17y agoUpvoting submissions works fine; it's only votes for comments that aren't working. I have Greasemonkey disabled at the moment. I don't have NoScript. I do have Adblock, but it's not blocking anything from this domain (news.ycombinator.com), and I just disabled it on this page in case I missed something.
- rms 17y agoI've noticed it. Just saw it happen here, when I upvoted Scott. For some reason it seems to take about 3 seconds for an upvote to register now, sometimes. Try refreshing again.
- 10ren 17y agoI upvoted your comment, and even after reloading a minute later, it has still not upvoted. At least it's not happening to everyone.
- tumult 17y agoI think it's just that voting does an asynchronous request to the server, and a lot of requests to HN have been timing out lately. I usually open comments that I want to vote on in another tab, vote, and then refresh the tab later on to see if it took.
- 10ren 17y agoInteresting. For me, I've found that there's a 100% failure rate, for every comment vote that I've checked. But it is registering in one way: the up-arrow is absent when it reloads, indicating that the server knows I've already voted, but doesn't count it.
- allenbrunson 17y agolooks like nobody got the real answer, so i'll have to do it. this question has been asked several times over the past couple of months. one of those times, pg piped up and said that he was experimenting with an algorithm that decides which votes count and which don't. he didn't elaborate, but it sounds like you've probably run afoul of that algorithm.
- 10ren 17y agoThanks - seems to have been this submission (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871202 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871202), in this comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871458 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871458) So it's appearing to count votes when it doesn't, by design.