On: Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

[drdaeman]

> You cannot downvote comments which are direct replies to your own

Update: my apologies, seems that I'm wrong. The quoted statement is correct. I'm sure I saw a downvote arrow there once, though (but that was in 2017, haha)

Old comment: Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think one can - they just need to click "N minutes ago" permalink to see the down arrow. Maybe it doesn't affect the score or just cosmetic, but IIRC it's recorded and persists. Unless this was changed recently - can't check (but I swear I saw it there!)

[grzm → drdaeman]

Feel free to test it with this comment. I haven’t seen a case where I personally can. Can you downvote it?

[drdaeman → grzm]

Oops, seems that it's gone now. I only see an upvote arrow.

[grzm → drdaeman]

Looks like it works for others. Successful test!

[colanderman → drdaeman]

Doesn't seem to work for any of the replies to my above comment.