Just like you can upvote a question or answer and then undo that, can this be possible for comments as well? It would be nice to be able to retract a marked comment.
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This was asked on Meta.SO and has a score of 233, and the five answers all support it (with a combined score of 342) along with all the comments, but still the feature request was declined for unknown reasons.
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This answer ont he meta.SO thread clarifies things. You can now un-upvote a comment if you do it within a minute. Aug 18, 2012 at 21:44
As noted in meta.stackoverflow (in an answer to the question Hugo mentioned) an un-upvote-comment feature (to retract or revert an upvote on a comment) was added in April, 2012.
Some restrictions apply: Your upvote is locked in if you navigate away from the page with the comment, or if 60 seconds go by. You can upvote a comment at most once.
answered Aug 18, 2012 at 8:35
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1Feel free to mark this comment, if you'd like, and then unmark it within 60 seconds. (I'm pretty sure some will want to test this).– J.R.Aug 18, 2012 at 12:25
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Wow! Your hypnotically mesmerising comment is even more compulsive than the big red button! (which I've successfully resisted pressing for nearly two minutes now! :) Sadly though, it seems I'll never be able to upvote your comment again in future, having just "un-upvoted" it once as a test. Aug 18, 2012 at 16:42
;-)