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Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?

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Post by ressaid1 »

huhtenberg wrote: post #60
spindritf wrote: post #5

I 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.

Same here. Lost it on the day when Jobs died trying to get at least something different on the front page. 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.

I dont see a downvote, but same thing happens with me on an upvote.

Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?

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Post by ressaid1 »

iambateman wrote: post #53
e12e wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought it was "common knowledge" that there's a 500 karma threshold to upvote? However, I couldn't find anything "official" right now, other than a reference under: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242385 (I thought it was in the faq? Did I miss it?)

I have <500 karma and can upvote. Unless it's not actually doing anything.

I have other friends that have low Karma points and can upvote. Its definitely not a Karma threshold.

Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?

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Post by ressaid1 »

ColinWright wrote: post #24

Upvotes 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 wor…

I know it doesnt work because I click upvote and it doesnt assign any points while a friend sitting right next to me could do the same thing and assign points. Both he and I have under 100 Karma points

Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?

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Post by lotsofcows »

alive-or-not wrote: post #36
bolder88 wrote: post #14

You probably posted something slightly critical of startups, or a YC company at some point in the past.

Or of the US or UK governments ...

Or any conversation that intersects the "two countries separated by a common language" thing.

Or any sort of joke.

Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?

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Post by frogpelt »

ch0wn wrote: post #38
dchest wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

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

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

There again, this is not my site.

Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?

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Post by acheron »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #68
jonnathanson wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure you lost them? Scanning through the posts here, it seems a lot of people just don't know where to look. You have to click "link" on a comment, or reply to the comment to be taken to the text editor screen. From either of these screens, the "flag" option appears. 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 reply…

I lost my flagging ability long ago. I habitually flagged political stories that others upvoted. Apparently going against the crowd flagged me for flagging. Heh. Not the way I'd design it to work, but then it's not my site.

Yeah I've wondered about that. I've flagged some BS political stories too and wondered if I was endangering my flagging privileges by disagreeing. I don't really care, but interesting to know.

Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?

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Post by DougBTX »

scott_s wrote: post #71
jacquesm wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Judge for yourself. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jacquesm Definitely not a part of any elite.

You may have tripped an automatic thing. Try emailing info@ycombinator.com to get it fixed.

Perhaps it was the reply to the "censorship or accident?" question.

Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?

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Post by lmm »

andyhmltn wrote: post #77
lmm wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strangely enough I can flag posts but not comments.

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 :)

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

Re: Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?

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Post by ColinWright »

ressaid1 wrote: post #83
ColinWright wrote: post #24

Upvotes 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 wor…

I know it doesnt work because I click upvote and it doesnt assign any points while a friend sitting right next to me could do the same thing and assign points. Both he and I have under 100 Karma points

Is this on a submission? A poll? A comment? Or something else? Did you reload the page? Can you upvote submissions? Can you vote in a poll?

In short, what have you tried? You're really not giving us much to go on ...

Do you write programs for other people to use? What do you do when they say "It doesn't work!" And give you no further information?

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