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by jader201·12y ago·view on hn ↗
> For instance, I could 'upvote' this article but it would not be counted (I know, because if I refresh the page the count has not changed).

How do you know that it's not a cached point value, and that after, say 30 seconds or so, that your upvote along with others will get added?

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My article votes appear to work immediately.

On the other hand, I lost the ability to flag articles a year or more ago.

Yes, I was inexplicably banned from flagging articles, too. Quite a fickle place, HN is.
Me three. Possibly for trying to keep the political pieces at bay. May be a wise move to avoid excessive user involvement.
It's turning into MetaFilter?

EDIT: By which I mean, it's really operating through manual interventions.