Ask HN: Have you upvoted by mistake?

6 points by 0xdeadbeefbabe ↗ HN
Did it cause any catastrophes?

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I've upvoted by mistake, and have never noticed any later bad effects.

I've downvoted when I meant to upvote before, however, and it's been frustrating not to have a way to counter that. That said, I tend to upvote about 10x more than I downvote, so it likely balances out.

I almost never downvote. Maybe a handful of times. I'd be surprised if it's more than five. So, probably not.
Likewise. If I'm proactively upvoting content I find positive, I don't have an urge to downvote.
On mobile devices the little arrow are pretty close. I almost never down-vote (on purpose at least) so I'm more worried about inadvertent down-voting when I meant to up-vote.
I never see the option to down-vote, am I missing something?
There's a minimum karma requirement to downvote. I believe it's somewhere around 500, but could be misremembering.
Pardon my ignorance, but why would a catastrophe result from an errant upvote?
One time a sexual article made it to the front page because someone impulsively upvoted it and others piled on as well.

I can only imagine a good example for comments, but I have nothing specific.

Yes.

I apparently lost my ability to vote on comments because i voted on something too soon after it appeared on /comments, but as far as i'm concerned it's a net positive for me, so not catastrophic.

Nevertheless, the vote buttons are too small and too close together, and clearly weren't designed by someone who actually cared about the UI.