Now, whether this is good or bad UX is up to the admins to decide. I assume "flag" is buried a little bit to prevent abuses of it, just as replying to someone's replies to yourself is delayed a little bit to prevent rapidfire back-and-forths.
Not the way I'd design it to work, but then it's not my site.
I'm not sure that flagging is meant for shooting down topic matter you'd rather not see on HN. And that's why the ability is removed from those who overuse it. Flagging is for blatant spam or personal attacks or other abuses, it's not a content-selection mechanism. Upvotes select content.
Fun fact: if you downvote too many people, your downvote button is invisibly disabled for a short time.
How do you find out about that? Doesn't the 'flag' link show up anymore?
EDIT: Flag only appears when you go to reply to a comment. Corrected :)
An other weird thing about HN: sometimes I can't see the "reply" link on a comment for a while, even if I reload.
Like, I wanted to reply to your post earlier but I couldn't even though ch0wn had already posted his own. I don't understand what triggers that behaviour.
There's (almost) always a reply box when you click the
comment's permalink. So if you click "link" instead of
"reply," you're still good.
in the scholarly sense, not in the everyday sense.
While we're at it, for fun: http://io9.com/5880128/what-scientists-say-in-research-paper...
There were flag links on both comments and stories before they disappeared for me.
An other weird thing about HN: sometimes I can't see the "reply" link on a comment for a while, even if I reload.
It's a feature to help prevent long flamewar threads.
There again, this is not my site.
Do you mean there if a karma threshold on something else? Is it new? I have noticed a marked improvement in HN content in the last two weeks.
There's a karma threshold for downvoting and flagging. Those are not new but I ventured a guess that there may now be a similar threshold for upvoting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242385
(I thought it was in the faq? Did I miss it?)
No idea how to tell if my upvotes 'count' or not.
That being said it might just be a bug somewhere.
Also I've been long suspecting that my downvotes don't work either. I have the arrows and they are clickable, but they seem to do anything. Pretty annoying actually.
How do you know your upvotes don't count? Who knows, maybe there's a karma threshold for that too now.