Ask HN: Hacker News Upvote Bug?

4 points by hammerdr 16y ago ↗ HN

I believe that there is a bug in HN. It's hard for me to isolate this but here's how I reproduce it:

1. Logout

2. Navigate to a story

3. Make note of current point value

4. Upvote a user submission

5. Login to HN

6. Make note of 'after' point value and lack of upvote button

What you should notice is that the point value is the same and that the upvote button is gone.

Navigating away and coming back does not seem to register the bug, either. However, I could be wrong and it be a freak incident where every time I've done this (quite a few times incidentally and a couple of times to test it just now) that the comment was down voted.

Edit: Formatting.

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jacquesm 16y ago ↗

This has been noted many times and is intentional.

Not that I agree with it, but that's how things are.

hammerdr 16y ago ↗

Why would that be intentional?

PG does not count all the votes, but the upvote button is there even in those cases where your vote will not be counted.

It would be my preference not to have the button in those cases, for consistency and clarity.

If a user interface component is present it should work as expected.

For more information read here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871202