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No way to upvote/flag a comment anymore?

I suddenly noticed that today the upvote icon and the flag icon disappeared from all comments on stackoverflow. I looked at the HTML, they seemed to be there, but my IE7 (running on XP SP3) won't ...
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Users should not be able to upvote comments they have flagged

After a user upvotes a comment, the option to flag as noise/offensive/spam disappears, while the up arrow icon "sticks" permanently. This has caused minor grumbling but is generally accepted as by ...
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No way to remove accidental upvote on a comment [duplicate]

I frequently upvote someone's comment only to realise I've fat-fingered it (especially easy to do on a touch phone, but I've also done it with a mouse) and clicked someone else's comment. ...
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Undoing "great comment" click? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment? I clicked on the wrong comment and want to remove my "up arrow", but I don't see any way to do it. Is there a way? (I'm ...
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When will my highest-voted comments appear in my profile?

Now this is a blast from the past. See what I found in a blog post from April 2009 (the introduction to comment voting): your best comments will also show up in your user profile page, but this isn’t ...
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Countdown Display

Can a small countdown slide-down (like the "you have x answers and y comments thing") be provided to indicate how long before another comment/comment upvote/etc. is allowed?
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What does "this comment is not valid for voting or flagging" mean?

I'm trying to upvote a comment and I get a dialog box with this comment is not valid for voting or flagging What's that about?
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'This is a great comment' - why this hint?

Did You ever refrain from clicking 'This is a great comment' just becase you think that it is not that great, but you still find it valuable? I think that if this hint was 'this is useful comment', I ...
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Allow us to cast thumbs down on comments [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Should downvoting be allowed on comments? We should be able to vote comments down as well as up Sometimes there are incorrect comments that have gained enough thumbs up in ...
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Is there a way to know when one of my comments gets "upvoted"?

If I leave a comment and someone liked it, is there a way to see it? If not... why not? It's something that would be nice to know.
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What is the daily comment vote limit?

I just ran out and it feels like I used maybe 10-15 (could've been 20). It seems low if so.
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What is the purpose of comment voting?

What is the real purpose of comment voting? As far as I see, there is no use for voting for comments (other than the Pundit badge)? In fact, you can only vote up comments (as opposed to questions and ...
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Allow downvoting comments

Answers and questions allow both upvoting and downvoting - comments, however, only allow upvoting. I think it would be useful to allow downvoting of comments for two reasons: First, if you ...
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Cancelling upvote on comment?

As mentioned on uservoice: For something that can be done so easily by accident, there should be the ability to undo mistakes. I know that I have clicked several times on a comment up-vote ...
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How does comment voting and flagging work?

Comments can now be upvoted and flagged. How do those features work? Do users get rep for their upvoted comments? Do upvoted comments have any effect on comment sorting? And can users see their own ...

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