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Ask HN: (why) Does upvoting get disabled for old submissions and comments?

1 pointsby sebkomianosabout 10 years ago
I am going through some quite old submissions (eg the &quot;passive income&quot; ones from previous years) and I just noticed that upvoting them and their comments doesn&#x27;t work. Is that a bug or a desired functionality and if so what&#x27;s the idea behind it?<p>P.S: <i>(not criticising or anything, just curious)</i>

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AnimalMuppetabout 10 years ago
Does it get disabled? Yes. It seems to disable by 180 days, maybe a bit sooner (too lazy to nail the number down at the moment).<p>Is it a bug, or desired functionality? I think it&#x27;s desired functionality, not a bug.<p><i>Why?</i> I might throw out some guesses, but I don&#x27;t really know.
dangabout 10 years ago
I&#x27;ve always assumed the intention is to treat older threads as history.