Ask HN: (why) Does upvoting get disabled for old submissions and comments?

1 pointsebkomianos2 comments

I am going through some quite old submissions (eg the "passive income" ones from previous years) and I just noticed that upvoting them and their comments doesn't work. Is that a bug or a desired functionality and if so what's the idea behind it?

P.S: (not criticising or anything, just curious)

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Does it get disabled? Yes. It seems to disable by 180 days, maybe a bit sooner (too lazy to nail the number down at the moment).

Is it a bug, or desired functionality? I think it's desired functionality, not a bug.

Why? I might throw out some guesses, but I don't really know.

I've always assumed the intention is to treat older threads as history.

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