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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by dgallagher on Sunday February 20, 2011 @12:35PM (#2242399)
Possible fix: Put the up-vote graphic to the left side of a comment (e.g. where it is now), and place the down-vote graphic to the right side (spaced a little bit away from the "link"). That makes it pretty hard to accidentally press one when you mean the other.

EDIT (example): http://dave-gallagher.net/pics/hnVote.gif

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by T-hawk on Sunday February 20, 2011 @01:15PM (#2242565)
> Possible fix: Put the up-vote graphic to the left side of a comment (e.g. where it is now), and place the down-vote graphic to the right side

I'm seconding that suggestion. It's the minimal possible coding workload, and solves the problem instantly for all time.

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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by moe on Sunday February 20, 2011 @03:11PM (#2242872)
So, then the people with the fat fingers will downvote whenever they try to click the 'link'?
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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by T-hawk on Sunday February 20, 2011 @05:54PM (#2243416)
Good point. Maybe put downvote between "X points" and "by"? Gives unclickable buffer space on each side of the arrow.
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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by makecheck on Sunday February 20, 2011 @03:48PM (#2243013)
Might want the arrows side-by-side, and just further apart. To me, the separate down-triangle in your screenshot almost looks "menu like" and may occasionally make me hit it for that reason.
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Re:Poll: Have you ever clicked the wrong upvote/downvote arrow? by saurik on Sunday February 20, 2011 @04:32PM (#2243163)
I find that the key problem is that the reply on the parent comment is right next to the upvote on a child, so I often find myself accidentally upvoting responses to things I want to reply to.
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