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Accidentally voted one of the comments down. Can someone vote it back up please? (My mouse spazzed out on me when I was clicking the link in the comment, jumped to "vote down")

You didn't mention which one got voted down (and neither is below my threshold) so I just threw a + at each.

jxh2154 said:
You didn't mention which one got voted down (and neither is below my threshold) so I just threw a + at each.

oh lol, well i did say there was a link in the comment, but thanks anyway

Could this be a real world suggestion for an "undo" button feature?

I think it might be unpractical, since it would require Danbooru to store more state than it already does. One bit per vote per user (if they voted or not) is probably already quite a bit to maintain.

Fooled me, I had the feeling it was all done browser side and submitted later. *shrug* Me learn.

Since we're talking about voting:

IIRC before voting was restricted to priv+ you could "undo" your positive vote on a post by voting it down, and vice versa.

Why was this changed? It was quite helpful in cases where you voted accidentally or got a better look at the pic later and changed your mind. I don't think it's a technical issue with Danbooru not being able to maintain all the data, a lot less people are now able to vote than back then.

I don't recall ever being able to undo votes. It was possible to vote multiple times in certain situations, but that was only because the site only kept track of the last person who voted. You could revote as long as someone else voted in between your votes. This is probably what you're thinking of.

The site does keep track of post/comment votes now (albeit only for two weeks), so it would be technically possible to undo votes. However, if the problem is accidental voting then a better solution would be to change the interface so that it's harder to accidentally click the wrong button.

Well, I don't know the technical stuff, but I'm pretty sure you could do it. I remember myself voting a post up and down many times within seconds as a test when I first found out about it.

Others remember this too: forum #26778.

Yes, the system was set up in such a way that one could vote multiple times for a single post, that's how you could 'undo' a vote, and is what allowed the abuse that lead to the current voting system in the first place.

Fred1515 said:
Well, I don't know the technical stuff, but I'm pretty sure you could do it.

Nope. It's always been restricted to one vote only. The system was just more lenient about how it tracked the state, so it was possible to abuse it if you knew how. But the ability to undo your vote was never designed in.

Rather than (or in addition to) an "Undo Vote" feature for comments, what about a confirmation dialogue box? It would make it slightly more difficult to accidentally down-vote or up-vote comments via a misplaced click.

I wouldn't mind a feature like that for voting up/down posts.

I would mind it. My usage of the image voting is tied to how simple and unobtrusive it is. I'd be voting a lot less than I am now if there were a constant stream of nag screens.

DschingisKhan said:
My usage of the image voting is tied to how simple and unobtrusive it is.

For comments, I said. Didn't address the voting for image ratings.