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Comment by yohui | Hacker News Reader

I wish there was an option to disable the downvote arrow on comments, or only show the downvote arrow if I click the direct link for a comment (like with flagging comments).

I'd rather not create a new HN account just to read and reply on mobile without the risk of accidentally hitting a downvote button while scrolling or trying to upvote a comment.

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You can install the stylebot [0] extension for Chrome, or stylish [1] for Firefox, then a rule like:

    div.votearrow.rotate180 {
        display: none;
    }

should do it.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

Thanks for the suggestion. I've used Stylish on both desktop Firefox and Chrome before. Would you say Stylebot is better?

Unfortunately, mobile Chrome doesn't support extensions, but maybe this would be a good excuse to use mobile Firefox more.

I like Stylebot more. It integrates into the webpage better, so you can have live previews, and right click on an element to style in [0], and for basic changes (such as hiding elements) you can avoid touching CSS at all.

[0] Of course, it just takes its best guess as to which possible selector you really want to style when you do it this way.

I wish the down vote arrow appeared at the end of the line instead of under the up vote arrow.

  /\ someuser 30 minutes ago \/

This. I thought the same yesterday. And I don't even have down vote buttons!

The recurring discussion about it gets old. Fix it.

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