> Sometimes people even downvote by accident when they mean to upvote—easy to do on your phone

You raise a great point. I have done that many times from a mobile phone.

@dang: Any thoughts on this HN UX issue? Idea: Should we change the UX on mobile browsers to make the upvote/downvote buttons have more space between them? It might help for folks with "sausage" fingers.

    > Also, I find anything which says “conservative religion isn’t purely bad” tends to reliably attract some downvotes.

That is why I liked his post. It had real nuance around a culturally senstive issue like religion.