Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?

Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by kybernetyk on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:09AM (#6552737)

> I lost flagging privileges, it's not binary. You can lose some ability without getting (shadow)banned.

How do you find out about that? Doesn't the 'flag' link show up anymore?

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by dchest on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:18AM (#6552766)

Same here. Yep, there's no flag link anymore.

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by pvnick on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:43AM (#6552866)

I can still flag things - both posts and comments. Could your flagging history be perceived as excessive?

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by lmm on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:55AM (#6552919)

Strangely enough I can flag posts but not comments.

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by andyhmltn on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:24AM (#6553353)

I'm pretty sure you could never flag comments. May be wrong.

EDIT: Flag only appears when you go to reply to a comment. Corrected :)

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by lmm on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:38AM (#6553442)

Oh, so it does. Did that change a few months ago?

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by dchest on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:49AM (#6552892)

I guess so. I think it disappeared after I flagged a lot of comments in one thread, but I'm not really sure (and it happened a few years ago).

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by simias on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:01AM (#6552949)

AFAIK there's no "flag" on comments, just stories (conversely, there's no downvotes for stories, just comments). Or maybe I just don't have enough karma to see it (or I lost it long ago).

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by pyre on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:08AM (#6553267)

"One weird trick" to comment on a comment with no "reply" link:

  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.

(Site admins hate him!)

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by ColinWright on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:13AM (#6553013)

There is flag on both submissions and comments. There is downvote on comments, but not on submissions. The "Reply" link is deliberately delayed on deep threads to help mitigate flame wars. These are all well-known features.

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by dhimes on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:39AM (#6553135)

well-known

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...

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by ColinWright on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:25AM (#6553359)

I agree it is not obvious to those who first come across these things. However, it is very well-known to anyone who searches for the countless threads about this very issue. Sadly, most people just ask the question without first researching the issue, and that then prompts several demonstrably incorrect answers.

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by dhimes on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @11:00AM (#6553580)

It's also in the FAQ and the guidelines if you read hard enough, but some of the subtleties of the questions are not explained there (probably because they were fluid for a while).

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by egeozcan on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:55AM (#6553539)

You can change the id in the reply link from another comment. It works for me.

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by ximeng on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:23AM (#6553050)

You need to click on the comment's "link" before you see the "flag" for the comment.

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by dchest on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:13AM (#6553010)

AFAIK there's no "flag" on comments, just stories (conversely, there's no downvotes for stories, just comments). Or maybe I just don't have enough karma to see it (or I lost it long ago).

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by ch0wn on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:54AM (#6552914)

I lost my flag privileges for posts a long time ago. Is there a separate one for comments, ie. a different action than downvoting?

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by frogpelt on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:35AM (#6553422)

It seems like a monthly quota of flags would make more sense than a lifetime quota.

There again, this is not my site.

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by galaktor on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:26AM (#6552800)

ditto. "flag" is gone. thought they might have changed something...

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by Fuxy on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:01AM (#6553230)

I can't down vote. Only the up arrow shows for me. Not that i mind I wouldn't down vote anyway. Ignoring is down voting in my book.

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Re:Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work? by ma2rten on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:03AM (#6553241)

You don't have enough karma to downvote.

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