On: Bug? Or can you downvote stories on Hacker News?

[run4yourlives]

I saw it earlier today... I added my upvote to sort it out. The only similarities were that both stories had no external urls... they were both questions to the community.

Ah, here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256760

[pg → run4yourlives]

Hmm, sure enough, the submitter is not listed in the voters for that one either. If anyone knows of any other examples, please let me know.

[Alex3917 → pg]

It happened on my last submission. At first I thought I'd been flagged as a spammer, but it still let me vote up manually.

[xlnt → pg]

For a day or two my votes didn't count. Maybe they were on moderation when they submitted?

[pg → xlnt]

You triggered some automatic protection against some form of abuse. I forget what.

[xlnt → pg]

I think that was when I downvoted all the congratulations in your wedding thread. :)