Douglas_Knight comments on LIST: I can't vote Karma on some people, some contexts. - Less Wrong
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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.)
The vote buttons work, even to downvote.
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."
Yes, of course.
Eliezer said a lot of things.
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: