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> I am using a text-based browser and so I do not use the upvote/downvote javascript. Consider this comment an upvote.

I haven't tried, but looking at this page source it looks to me that vote arrows are divs wrapped in anchors pointing to up- and down vote URLs. They should definitely be usable without JS; maybe the problem is that the empty divs are not visible in your text browser?

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Correct. They are not visible.

I could convert these anchors into visible URLs and they should work. Nevertheless I will not be doing that.

When I mentioned JS I was thinking of the presence of the onclick attribute and the vote() function as seen below.

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