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Ask HN: I have 600 karma but can't see downvotes

1 points by longnguyen ↗ HN
Basically the title. I used to see the downvote button when I reached 501 karma but now I don’t see it/can’t downvote.

Is something changed recently that I’m not aware of?

Thanks

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pvg
You can't downvote articles, you can't downvote replies to your own comments, you can't downvote comments that are a day or so old and older, etc. So make sure you're looking at a thing that's actually downvotable (e.g. a toplevel comment in a front page thread).
longnguyen
Never mind. Suddenly I can see downvote button now so maybe just HN server hiccup?
gus_massa
From time to time (like once or twice per month) HN goes to read only mode for a few minutes (while dang is making some weird update?), and the downvote buttons disappear. Can this be the explanation???