arundelo comments on LIST: I can't vote Karma on some people, some contexts. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arundelo 08 May 2015 04:21:22AM 1 point [-]

A while back (a couple years?) votes (or at least downvotes) were disabled on per-user "overview", "comments", and "submitted" pages, to make it harder to karmassassinate people. Sometimes there's a bug where you still see the vote buttons but if I remember correctly they don't work.

(You can still vote on a comment after following its permalink.)

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 08 May 2015 04:23:29AM 0 points [-]

The vote buttons work, even to downvote.

Comment author: arundelo 08 May 2015 04:30:26AM 2 points [-]

OK. (Although -- have you refreshed the page or gone to the permalink to see if the vote is still there? I kind of remember that the vote button changed color but didn't actually record the vote.)

Anyway, I looked it up and in 2011 Eliezer said, "Voting buttons have now been removed from user profile pages."

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 08 May 2015 04:47:52AM 1 point [-]

Yes, of course.

Eliezer said a lot of things.

Comment author: arundelo 08 May 2015 02:22:17PM 1 point [-]

I'm just saying that it is intentional that you can't vote on the comments on someone's profile page. (I found the relevant entry in the issue tracker.)

I was about to say that if sometimes the buttons do appear then it's a bug, but it turns out that this behavior has been changed:

Users with sufficient karma can downvote on the userpages of people with less than a certain percentage upvotes.