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Comment by msluyter | Hacker News Reader

The iPad and iPhone are especially dangerous when it comes to accidental downvoting. Separating or enlarging the arrows would help those of us with fat fingers.

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Possible fix: Put the up-vote graphic to the left side of a comment (e.g. where it is now), and place the down-vote graphic to the right side (spaced a little bit away from the "link"). That makes it pretty hard to accidentally press one when you mean the other.

EDIT (example): http://dave-gallagher.net/pics/hnVote.gif

> Possible fix: Put the up-vote graphic to the left side of a comment (e.g. where it is now), and place the down-vote graphic to the right side

I'm seconding that suggestion. It's the minimal possible coding workload, and solves the problem instantly for all time.

So, then the people with the fat fingers will downvote whenever they try to click the 'link'?

Good point. Maybe put downvote between "X points" and "by"? Gives unclickable buffer space on each side of the arrow.

Might want the arrows side-by-side, and just further apart. To me, the separate down-triangle in your screenshot almost looks "menu like" and may occasionally make me hit it for that reason.

I find that the key problem is that the reply on the parent comment is right next to the upvote on a child, so I often find myself accidentally upvoting responses to things I want to reply to.

You can use my http://ihackernews.com which works great for mobile devices.

http://www.icombinator.net can't vote, which is not as useful.

Thanks - that's very cool. I'm new here. What are some other cool sites that I can use to access this site?

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