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Ask HN: why aren't my comment votes registering?

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When I upvote/downvote a comment, the score appears to go up/down, but if I reload the page, it has not changed (my votes on submissions are working).

Is there a new karma threshold for comment voting, of some kind, perhaps based on average karma (per comment)? Or is it a bug?

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I haven't seen that - I just upvoted this and it showed up immediately. Do you have some new Greasemonkey script installed that messes with it, or perhaps NoScript?

Upvoting submissions works fine; it's only votes for comments that aren't working.

I have Greasemonkey disabled at the moment. I don't have NoScript. I do have Adblock, but it's not blocking anything from this domain (news.ycombinator.com), and I just disabled it on this page in case I missed something.

I think it's just that voting does an asynchronous request to the server, and a lot of requests to HN have been timing out lately. I usually open comments that I want to vote on in another tab, vote, and then refresh the tab later on to see if it took.

Interesting. For me, I've found that there's a 100% failure rate, for every comment vote that I've checked.

But it is registering in one way: the up-arrow is absent when it reloads, indicating that the server knows I've already voted, but doesn't count it.

I've noticed it. Just saw it happen here, when I upvoted Scott. For some reason it seems to take about 3 seconds for an upvote to register now, sometimes. Try refreshing again.

I upvoted your comment, and even after reloading a minute later, it has still not upvoted.

At least it's not happening to everyone.

looks like nobody got the real answer, so i'll have to do it.

this question has been asked several times over the past couple of months. one of those times, pg piped up and said that he was experimenting with an algorithm that decides which votes count and which don't. he didn't elaborate, but it sounds like you've probably run afoul of that algorithm.

Thanks - seems to have been this submission (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871202), in this comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=871458)

So it's appearing to count votes when it doesn't, by design.

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