Should be trivial to whip up your own custom CSS, or at worst some jQuery that iterates over $('td.reply-body div.vote') and removes and then appends each one to the enclosing element.

I gave an example of exactly that in Re: The big Vote button

-xdg

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Thank you for that little lead; nice and neat and simple. I see that grinder had the same idea about the location of the ++0--buttons earlier in that thread too. Maybe I'll have a little tinker with this..

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Maybe keyboard driven is for you. Or what Fletch said ... ;-)

shmem: thank you for the reference. Quite a lot there to take in but I will go into it.

(Interesting aside... for many years I have actually been quite happy using a mouse + a keyboard together and wondered why some people are so vociferous about using only a keyboard ... at a desktop computer. Now I am often talking to PM on a laptop in the living room c/o wireless, and switching from keys to touchpad is, though closer, somehow a lot more intrusive.)

My thanks to both. As ever, PerlMonks acts not as a source of Answers to Questions but as a stimulus to more inquiry and learning.

I'm now just waiting for the moon to slow us down to a 26-hour day.

Haha, the same thing happened to me. I just got a laptop earlier this month (I have been using a desktop for ~2 years) and I hate having to use the touchpad. Let me know what you decide to do, I may want to follow suit. :)

And you didn't even know bears could type.

This is my incomplete implementation, to be used from the free nodelet. It moves the radio button to the cell at the right, above the options [reply], [/msg], [d/l] and such.

<script language="Javascript">
// reparent voting radio buttons
var replies_table = document.getElementById ('replies_table');
if (replies_table) {
    var divs = replies_table.getElementsByTagName ('div');
    for (var i = divs.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        var node = divs`[i`];
        var class = node.getAttribute('class');
        if ('vote' != class) { continue; }
        var dest = node.parentNode.nextSibling;

        // remove <center> tag
        node.innerHTML = node.firstChild.innerHTML;

        // discard spacing between <label>s
        var children = node.childNodes;
        for (var j = children.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
            var c = children`[j`];
            //alert (c.tagName + ' ' + c.innerHTML);
            if ('LABEL' != c.tagName) {
                node.removeChild (c);
                continue;
            }
        }

        // insert <br>s between <label>s
        for (var j = children.length - 1; j >= 1; j--) {
            node.insertBefore (document.createElement ('br'), children
+`[j`]);
        }

        // add a couple of nbsp's to make the cell wider in
        // order to make room for the "+=0" vote option
        dest.firstChild.innerHTML += '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;';

        // add the vote buttons div to the cell at the right
        dest.insertBefore (node, dest.firstChild);  // appendChild (no
+de);
        //alert ('index (' + i + ') class (' + class + ') dest.innerHT
+ML (' + dest.innerHTML + ')');
    }
}
</script>
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Things to be improved:

• Only moves radio buttons in replies, not in the node displayed at the top.
• The text +=0 appears on its own line, instead of being at the right of its radio button (not an issue for some users). I don't know how to fix that. (Update: if the cell includes the option [select], it gets wide enough and this problem doesn't happen). (Update, more than one year later: it just struck me that adding a couple of  s to the [reply] link would be enough to widen the cell and make room for the +=0, thereby fixing the bug.

Thank you .. works for me ;-)

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I have looked at several mock-ups placing voting radio buttons at the bottom of each node, but they all were too easy to see as the voting radio buttons being above the author information (an interpretation that would lead to one voting on the wrong node).

So, as is so often the case, the devil is in the details. If you want buttons at the bottom, then move them for yourself in a way that won't confuse you. If you hope for the site to add an option for putting the buttons there, then produce the mock-up that shows a good way to do it, since I have yet to see one.

tye, if you could supply the bad ones, I could give a try while avoiding those, resulting in a shorter try-fail loop.

I tend not to hoard failures. I certainly don't keep track of them for years (I'm sure it has been years since the last time this idea was entertained). There may well be some of them stored in nodes somewhere, so you could try searching for them.

- tye        

Just an idea. This only works for replies, not for the node viewed, but what if we placed them on the sidebar above the reply and msg links?