Ask HN: Aren't the HN voting buttons too small?

I think its safe to assume that any down votes this post gets were by accident due to the button size.

Yes. The voting button is way too small. In fact, upon first glance it's not really evident that it's even a button. I like minimalist design, but HN has taken the idea a bit too far.

I like the small and discreet vote buttons myself.

Try <ctrl><+> a few times (in Chrome anyway) if you need a bigger target ;)

I wanted to mention that I was aware of this trick in the thread description, but removed it because I thought it was obvious. It's too many key strokes and clicks to zoom in, upvote and then zoom out again to read text at normal size.

If you really find the buttons to be too small then why don't you look in to writing (or finding) a userscript to make them bigger/different? I only suggest it because the likelihood that HN is going to change is very low.

Yes.