Could be easily fixed by one line of CSS to make the dang buttons larger, but apparently Hacker News can't be bothered to improve their shitty website.
EDIT: great community, shitty website.
Re:Introducing MIR
by BinaryIdiot on Thursday April 28, 2016 @12:54AM
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Yup that would work really well
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would make it less fat finger prone and still be pretty straightfoward to use (plus having downvote close to flag IMHO makes sense as well from a context perspective)