Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button?

Posted by tejasmanohar on Sunday March 01, 2015 @12:05AM
from the ask-hn dept.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button? by yzzxy on Sunday March 01, 2015 @02:24AM (#9126356)

Yes. It would be a good way to fix misclicks. However, I would recommend a quick time-delayed lockout similar to that present for comment editing (or is that lockout related to child comments? It's never been clear to me). That would reduce dog-piling effects and would keep votes permanent from a semantic perspective.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button? by tejasmanohar on Sunday March 01, 2015 @02:31AM (#9126360)

My thoughts exactly. It's not hard incorporate one, not sure why this doesn't exist yet.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button? by stephenr on Sunday March 01, 2015 @04:55AM (#9126567)

Better UI/UX around up/down voting would be a better solution

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Re:Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button? by stephenr on Sunday March 01, 2015 @11:15AM (#9127591)

Seriously, someone down voted this?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button? by bbcbasic on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @10:09PM (#9142437)

It was a mistake

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Re:Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button? by tejasmanohar on Sunday March 01, 2015 @04:59AM (#9126577)

Definitely!

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Re:Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button? by SamReidHughes on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @10:30AM (#9144779)

No. Karma doesn't really matter, so it's not important if you misclick.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button? by ericfontaine on Saturday March 14, 2015 @11:20AM (#9202886)

If karma doesn't matter, then that is an argument for not having up votes for comments either.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button? by SamReidHughes on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @05:11PM (#9228719)

It's not like there aren't other reasons.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you want an un-vote button? by ericfontaine on Saturday March 14, 2015 @11:38AM (#9202954)

unvote would be nice due to misclicks, or fix misunderstandings when initially reading a comment (e.g. in cases delayed detection of sarcasm.)

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