Ask HN: Have you upvoted by mistake?

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.

Pardon my ignorance, but why would a catastrophe result from an errant upvote?

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'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.