I’ve noticed it’s only specific comments too. I was able to upvote yours fine but on another comment in a different thread I tried 5-6 times and gave up. It doesn’t seem to matter if the user or comment or post is local to Kbin.social or any other instance either.
The whole reason they’re running an out of season /r/place event is to drive traffic.
Flairs, and as a bonus, user tagging from RES.
The indent of an OP’s replies is a different color and dashed to differentiate from other users. I agree it could be something more prominent though.
I’ve already seen a few users who seem to have a habit of downvoting large chunks of a user’s comment history if they disagree with them which is 1. sad and 2. makes me wonder if that was a common thing back on reddit since there wouldn’t be a way to tell. I think it’s overall a good thing that it’s visible, it should encourage people to talk more and downvote less.