This happens to me with posts that are at least a year old, but new posts have no problem.
Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
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Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
#22My upvote doesn't work either. Never did (tried a few times) -> I just don't upvote.
How can you tell? I click upvote, the buttons disappear, and I have to move on with my life.
Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
#23Your comments page - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ressaid1 - shows no comments posted in the past 39 days. If you were 'dead' I'd see them but as dead so it seems something unusual is going on here if you have posted a comment in the past 39 days.
One of my older accounts comments stopped showing up for everyone else. Only I could see them. So I made a new account.
Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
#24Upvotes on comments, or on submissions? How do you know they don't count? What tests have you done? With no more information than just "my votes don't work" it's like a user saying "the internet is broken."
HN has lots of features to help protect itself against spam, sock puppets, voting rings, and more. Maybe you inadvertently tripped something, maybe you've fallen foul of some detector, but there's no chance of working it out when all you say is "It's broken."
Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
#25I lost flagging privileges, it's not binary. You can lose some ability without getting (shadow)banned. How do you know your upvotes don't count? Who knows, maybe there's a karma threshold for that too now.
> 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?
ditto. "flag" is gone. thought they might have changed something...
Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
#26I have to refresh the page to see the score change (FF24, ubuntu). Also, if the page is too old (e.g. if you read the article and spent time considering it), then your vote might not register.
So, refresh (to get a fresh page), vote, and refresh again (to see your vote reflected in the score).
OTOH, HN sometimes experiments with karma thresholds and various tricks. So that might be it if the above doesn't work.
Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
#27We can test your theory here if you like. Upvote this comment and I'll tell you if it counted. If you leave a comment I'll upvote it so you can see if you get upvotes. I'd be surprised if either of these didn't just work.
I love this comment, it is like a poetry!
Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
#28I have to refresh the page to see the score change (FF24, ubuntu). Also, if the page is too old (e.g. if you read the article and spent time considering it), then your vote might not register. So, refresh (to get a fresh page), vote, and refresh again (to see your vote reflected in the score). OTOH, HN sometimes experiments with karma thresholds and various tricks. So that might be it if the above doesn't work.
Completely off-topic: 6ren is there a good way to send you a private message? I'd love to send you a quick note if you don't mind sharing some way to get into contact (im stukearney@gmail.com)
Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
#29My upvote doesn't work either. Never did (tried a few times) -> I just don't upvote.
How can you tell? I click upvote, the buttons disappear, and I have to move on with my life.
I go to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547669,
vote to e.g. 0, button disappears, reload page, I get the same points (and buttons) back.
Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
Same here. Yep, there's no flag link anymore.
I can still flag things - both posts and comments. Could your flagging history be perceived as excessive?